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March 12, 2007

UN Team Says Sudan is Orchestrating Crimes in Darfur
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'war crimes and crimes against humanity continue across the region' A
U.N. human rights team is accusing Sudan's government of direct
involvement with war crimes in Darfur.

The U.N. human rights group issued a report Monday in Geneva that says
the government has "failed to protect the population of Darfur from
large-scale international crimes, and has itself orchestrated and
participated in these crimes."

The report also says "war crimes and crimes against humanity continue
across the region."

The U.N. team was headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams,
who was sent by the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate charges
of widespread abuse in Sudan's western Darfur region.

Fighting between non-Arab rebels and militias mobilized by the
Sudanese government has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced
at least two million since 2003.

Last September, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch
said the Sudanese military was indiscriminately bombing villages in
Darfur's rebel-held regions and urged the U.N. Security Council to
impose sanctions on Sudan. Some information for this report was
provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.


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