The trial on 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity of former Darfur janjaweed leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (known as ‘Ali Kushayb’), opened before Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands today. The Ali Kushayb trial will be the first case the ICC has handled on atrocities committed in Darfur in the early 2000s, and has been lauded by the Chief Prosecutor as ‘breaking the fast for justice’.