Annan urges UN rights forum to deal urgently with Darfur

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GENEVA (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will urge the world body's Human Rights Council to hold a special session on violations in Sudan's strife-torn region of Darfur, warning that the Council's reputation is at stake.

In prepared remarks to the 47-member states of the Council, which were released by the
United Nations, Annan says the violations there deserve at least as much if not more attention than grave violations in Palestinian territories and Israel.

"There are surely other situations, besides the one in the Middle East, which would merit scrutiny by a special session of this council. I would suggest that Darfur is a glaring case in point," Annan says in his message to the session.

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1. Thanks for the heads up. If you are in power and have an army..you

ARE RESPONSIBLE for what happens in your country. Especially when your army acts as "wingman" to the people committing the genocide and ethnic cleansing.