Africa urges Sudan to disarm militias, sees no genocide
Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 04:32AM
TheSpook
African leaders under pressure to intervene
in Darfur urged Khartoum on Wednesday urgently to "neutralise"
the Janjaweed militia but said the bloodshed was not a genocide,
a term used by some rights groups. The African Union's ruling was
immediately proclaimed as a victory by the Sudanese government,
which has long denied that the Arab militia's attacks on black
African civilians are part of a government-backed extermination
campaign. [more]
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