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September 09, 2004
U.S.: Islamist carnage in Sudan is 'genocide'

WorldNetDaily: U.S.: Islamist carnage in Sudan is 'genocide'

The United States is calling the rape, pillaging and slaughter of blacks in western Sudan by the Islamist Khartoum regime and its Arab militia allies genocide.

"We concluded that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed [tribal militia] bear responsibility and genocide may still be occurring," said Secretary of State Colin Powell in testimony this morning to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Aljazeera: Sudan rejects Darfur 'genocide' label

Sudan has rejected a declaration by the US that the alleged atrocities in the country's troubled Darfur region was genocide.

"This is just another sort of pressure brought against the government of Sudan by the United States and Western governments, the kind of general political pressure that shows the US is not a friend of Sudan," said Ahmad Hassan al-Zubair, Sudan's finance minister.

"We will prove that it is true that the conflict in Sudan is an internal tribal problem and it will be for the national government to solve this problem," he said on leaving an African Union summit in Burkina Faso on Thursday.
Posted by Willie Galang at September 9, 2004 03:48 PM | TrackBack
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Not quite sure what is going on, here. Surely President Bush cannot expect a simple declaration to change anything. The only way to stop this genocide is by military action, but assuming he has the will, where are the forces going to come from and how would they do it?
Besides, isn't Iran's nuclear program more important to us right now? I am not minimizing the suffering of people there, but I do not want to wait for an Iranian nuke in NYC either!

Posted by: BattleofthePyramids [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 10, 2004 03:05 AM

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