Kenya's judge at the International Criminal Court Joyce Aluoch has been elected the presiding judge in the Darfur case. Justice Aluoch, a former judge in Kenya's Court of Appeal, was elected by her peers to be the lead judge in the case against Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus over their alleged crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan.The case was referred to the three judges by the presidency of the ICC after constituting Trial Chamber IV on March 16. The other judges on the bench are Fatoumata Dembele Diarra and Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi.
According to a statement posted on the ICC website, Pre-Trial Chamber I found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Banda and Jerbo are criminally responsible as co-perpetrators or as indirect co-perpetrators for three war crimes under the Rome Statute.
The charges against the accused include murder, intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission; and pillaging.
Justice Aluoch was elected to the ICC in The Hague in January 2009. Her nine-year term as an ICC judge started on March 11, 2009.
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