Senator Frist: Sanction threat won't end Darfur crisis.

The U.S. Senate majority leader  said on Tuesday the threat of sanctions against Sudan is not  enough to stop what he called a campaign of genocide being waged  by Arab militiamen in Sudan's western region of Darfur. Bill Frist, the Republican senator for the state of  Tennessee, also rejected the findings of a European Union (EU)  fact-finding mission which said there was no evidence of  genocide but found that killing in Darfur was widespread. Last month the U.S. Congress passed a resolution declaring  that genocide was occurring in Darfur. "What is going on in Darfur is genocide. I disagree with the  statement made by the European Union," Frist told a news  conference in Nairobi following a week-long visit to Chad and  southern Sudan. He did not visit Darfur in western Sudan. [more]