The Sudanese government has rejected accusations it is responsible for crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in the troubled western region of Darfur.
"I want to repeat anew that there is no ethnic cleansing or mass genocide in Darfur," insisted Sudan's Foreign Minister Mustafa Usman Ismail on Friday.
The minister was responding to a recent report by the US-based Human Rights Watch that charged the government forces with gross abuses in Darfur, including "mass massacres and summary executions" of local African tribes.
"What we have is a situation where there is a state of war and there are certain humanitarian conditions that have arisen from this state of war," Ismail explained.
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