The White House faced growing political pressure from Congress
yesterday to declare that the Sudanese government is carrying out
genocide in western Sudan's Darfur region. Senators introduced a
bipartisan resolution calling for action. If passed by Congress, the
resolution - sponsored by Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, and Jon
Corzine, a New Jersey Democrat - would mark the first time Congress had
passed a genocide measure while the reported violence was still in
progress. The Brownback-Corzine resolution urges the Bush
administration to declare genocide in Darfur and to take steps with the
international community to stop it. The Bush administration has not yet
declared the Darfur crisis an act of genocide. [more]
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