Sudan issues threat over intervention (21st century GENOCIDE) [View All]

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Recap of some recent develpments: The US Senate and House of Representatives voted unanimously for resolutions urging US leaders and the international community to begin "calling the atrocities being committed in Darfur by their rightful name: genocide." US State department has called for sanctions.

Security council members Russia, Pakistan and China have opposed the threat of sanctions, saying the Sudanese government needs more time to act.

France and Arab nations want the African Union to handle the matter without UN intervention. UK offered up to 6,000 troops for deployment. Of the 350 million in UN aid to the Sudan, less than half has been ponied up my member countries with 70 percent coming from just four donors, the United States, the Netherlands, Britain and the European Commission

eTaiwanNews.com/Sudan issues threat over intervention

2004-07-29 / Associated Press

Egypt said yesterday it would try to prevent adoption of an American-drafted resolution threatening U.N. sanctions on Sudan, aiming to temper international pressure on its neighbor over bloodshed in its western provinces.

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Aid groups, U.N. officials and Western governments say ethnic cleansing in Darfur - described by some as genocide - has killed 30,000 people, most of them black villagers, and threatens 2 million. Some Arabs, however, have rallied behind Sudan's Arab government or, fearful the United States is only trying to remake the region, say the West is mishandling the Darfur issue.

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"Egypt believes that Sudan will be able to overcome this crisis by exerting more effort, and there will be contacts with the Sudanese government by Egypt in this regard in order to prevent the adoption of this resolution," Abdel Fattah said.

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The Sudanese government warned Tuesday it would retaliate if foreign troops are dispatched to bring the situation in Darfur under control.

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