U.S. Experts to Report on Darfur Killings Next Week

[Ann Arbor Dem]

Fri Jul 16, 2004 07:00 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. experts will report next week on whether they believe the killing of African villagers by Arab militias in Sudan's Darfur region constitutes genocide, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday.

The experts will make their report as Washington seeks to build pressure on the Sudanese government to stop violence by the "Janjaweed" militias and to allow wider humanitarian access to the 1 million people they have displaced in western Sudan.

U.N. Security Council envoys do not expect any action until next week at the earliest on a U.S.-drafted sanctions resolution that would put an immediate travel and arms ban on the Janjaweed leaders. It would also threaten to extend the ban to Khartoum within a month if the government did not stop the killings, rape and uprooting of African villagers.

Powell said he did not believe the events in Darfur, which the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian disaster, now legally constitute genocide.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5695875

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How can Powell say he doesn't think it is genocide? Oh yeah, he's following the puppetmaster's orders.

Fortunately Charles Rangel and Bobby Rush have the conviction and courage to speak out.

[aquart]

1. Would it be genocide if they had oil?

[Ann Arbor Dem]

2. You bet....

and Sudan would be on the list of countries to invade next.

[countmyvote4real]

3. on the other hand they "had" Osama under Clinton.

dum de dump dump.