Despite death toll-Powell says: 'Not a Genocide yet'
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 05:11AM
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has issued a direct appeal to
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir to rein in militia groups he said
were responsible for a "horrific" humanitarian crisis in western Sudan,
including the uprooting of more than 1 million people. But despite the
deaths of tens of thousands of black Africans blamed on the
government-backed Arab militias during the 16-month conflict in Darfur
province, Powell stopped short of calling the killings a genocide - as
some human rights groups have described. The situation in Darfur is
moving toward genocide - "but we are not there yet," Powell said on
Tuesday before a meeting with el-Bashir after arriving in the Sudanese
capital. [more]
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