U.S. and U.N. Withhold Genocide Label for Sudanese Crisis 

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 01:13PM
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The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region in Sudan has reached deadly proportions: thousands killed, one million people displaced, over 150,000 refugees fleeing into neighbouring Chad and entire villages wiped out by marauding militia groups. [more]

• Congresswoman Barbara Lee Disappointed by Colin Powell's Failure to Call Sudan Crisis 'Genocide' [more]

• Rwanda war crimes tribunal faces financial troubles [more]
  
  

-WHAT IS GENOCIDE?
Genocide is foremost an international crime for which individuals, no matter how high in authority, may be indicted, tried, and punished by the International Criminal Court (ICC). According to Article 6 of the ICC Statute, This crime involves, "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).