Since 2007, U.S. Treasury has had blocked the assets of Sudan’s defense minister, Gen. Awad ibn Ouf,  who led the overthrow Thursday of autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir, for supporting militias accused of carrying out genocide in the country’s Darfur conflict, AP reported.

It was noted that he was among other Sudanese officials placed on a U.S. sanctions list for his role in the bloodshed in the western region of Darfur. Al-Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide over the conflict in which 200,000 people were killed.

It should be noted that the military had removed and arrested al-Bashir and that it will rule the country for the next two years as part of a transitional council along with the powerful security and intelligence agencies.