The U.S. Congress passed a resolution on
Thursday declaring that genocide is occurring in Sudan, which
backers hope will pressure the international community to take
action to protect Africans in the Darfur region from marauding
Arab militias. In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, the House
of Representatives passed the measure in a unanimous vote, and
the Senate then approved it by a voice vote, in their last
acts before Congress adjourned for a six-week summer
recess. The resolution says "the
atrocities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide." It urges
President Bush to seek a U.N. resolution to impose sanctions
against those responsible for the atrocities, authorize a
multinational force to protect displaced people and humanitarian
workers, create a commission to investigate crimes and set up a
process to resolve grievances between Darfurians and the Sudanese
government. [more]
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