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By JAMES COPNALL
BBC World Service
Wednesday 26 April 2023 10:45 BST UK - full copy:
What is the significance of Haroun's prison escape?
As we’ve reported Ahmed Haroun has escaped from prison.
He played a key part in the Sudanese government’s brutal response to two long-running and still unresolved civil wars, in Darfur and South Kordofan.
He was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his alleged role in the atrocities in Darfur, which has been described as the first genocide of the 21st century.
Haroun was a member of former President Omar al Bashir’s inner circle for much of his 30 years in power - and was locked up once Bashir was overthrown in 2019.
Now Haroun says he and other Bashir loyalists are out of Kober prison.
Plenty of Sudanese people will believe this is just the latest example of Gen Burhan trying to restore Bashir’s Islamist lieutenants to the forefront of Sudanese politics.
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