US Blames Khartoum, Militias for Darfur 'Genocide'
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Thursday genocide has occurred in Darfur and blamed Sudan's  government and Janjaweed militias, a finding likely to increase  pressure on Khartoum to end the violence.
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The violence that prompted Washington to declare last year that genocide was occurring in Sudan's Darfur region continues, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sudan&#39;s government is sponsoring atrocities in its western Darfur region that amount to genocide, buttressing the US case for the United Nations to levy economic sanctions on the African nation.
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WASHINGTON  - The Bush administration for the first time on Thursday labelled as "genocide" the attacks on black Africans by a government-backed Arab militia in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell declared Thursday that the United States views the killings, rapes and destruction of homes in the Darfur region of western Sudan
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Sudanese President Omar el-Beshir has accused the United States of backing rebels &quot;to the hilt&quot; in the country's war-torn Darfur region and said the crisis there has been blown out of all proportion.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said today that genocide has occurred in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region. It is not immediately clear what this designation
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The international community has failed in its responsibility to halt the killings in Darfur and must find a way to force Sudan to accept an international force to end the violence, the United States said on Sunday.
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The Sudanese Foreign Minister has rejected a United States declaration of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, saying the US is using a humanitarian crisis for political purposes.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 17  -- The United States flatly rejected Sudanese accusations that its determination last week that &quot;genocide&quot; is occurring in Darfur had poisoned nascent African Union-hosted peace talks between Khartoum and two rebel groups.
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US President George W. Bush announced fresh sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday to punish Khartoum over the continued violence in the Darfur region.
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The State Department says a US investigation of violence in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region has confirmed a &quot;pattern&quot; of ethnic-based attacks by Arab militiamen and Sudanese government forces against black African villagers.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday the abuses committed by government-supported Arab militias in Sudan qualify as genocide against the black African population in the Darfur region â- determination that should bring
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The United States expressed "real concern" Monday for thousands of people forced to flee their homes due to operations by the Sudanese military in the war-stricken region of Darfur.
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Sudan said on Saturday the United States was wrong to try to label the conflict in Darfur as genocide and said recent hardline US statements on Sudan were aimed at domestic constituencies and the US elections.
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The United States said on Friday it  is preparing a new U.N. resolution on Darfur and that Secretary  of State Colin Powell might address next week whether the  violence in western Sudan constitutes genocide.
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Sudan blamed the United States for the failure of three weeks of peace talks between Khartoum and Darfur rebels on Friday, but African Union mediators said negotiations would resume in October.