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Carter & Elder Statesmen: Dafur not genocide
Carter == mad dog. [..] No genocide "There is a legal definition of genocide and Darfur does not meet that legal standard. The atrocities were horrible but I do not think it qualifies to be called genocide," said former US President Jimmy Carter. They also urged Khartoum to hand over war crimes suspects for trial at the International Criminal Court, notably Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs, Ahmad Harun, and the Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb. Mr Brahimi said peace talks planned later this month had raised a glimmer of hope. But he said the situation for people in Darfur was dire and they too needed to be represented at the talks. "The international community has acted rather irresponsibly on all this in the past by pampering a lot of these people around - not really wondering whether they really represented anybody and whether they were acting responsibly," said Mr Brahimi. The group has now concluded a visit that took them from Khartoum to Juba in southern Sudan to discuss the shaky peace in force there, and then to El Fasher in Darfur from where they were able to visit some of the province's estimated 2m displaced people. [..] Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-05 |
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