UN to investigate Darfur genocide
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A UN panel is given three months to establish whether genocide is taking place in Darfur in western Sudan.
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The Sudanese government has organized and taken part in human rights crimes in Darfur, a U.N. report said.
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The new U.N. human rights watchdog agreed on Wednesday to send a high-level mission to Sudan's Darfur to probe allegations of worsening abuses against civilians.
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The United Nations said on Wednesday initial indications suggested one of the rebel groups in Sudan's western Darfur region was involved in the killing of two employees of a British charity this week.
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UNITED NATIONS : The UN&#39;s top rights official accused Sudan of failing the people of Darfur after her mission to the troubled region found evidence of probable war crimes.
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A U.N. human rights mission on Monday accused Sudan's government of orchestrating and taking part in war crimes in Darfur and called for urgent international action to protect civilians there.
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The U.N. Security Council on Friday allowed U.N. experts, who have recommended sanctions on top Sudanese officials, to continue monitoring atrocities and arms embargo violations in Darfur.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council, under strong pressure to act against atrocities in Darfur, voted Wednesday to send a team of investigators to the war-torn region of western Sudan to report on civilian deaths, rapes, mass flight and destruction of villages.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell called atrocities in Sudan's troubled Darfur region genocide and demanded a thorough UN probe into the crisis, hastening moves toward international sanctions on the Khartoum government.
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The International Criminal Court has found sufficient evidence to identify the perpetrators of some of the worst atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region, and the probe offers "reasonable grounds to believe" that crimes against humanity were committed, chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the annual...
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The United Nations is investigating  reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses  against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a  spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS  - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan named a five-member panel on Thursday led by Italian  judge Antonio Cassese to investigate whether genocide has taken  place in Sudan's Darfur region.
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A UN team has arrived in Sudan to investigate whether genocide has occurred in the country&#39;s Darfur region where more than 1.5 million people have been made homeless by conflict, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
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World News, KINSHASA - The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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The UN calls for an independent investigation into reports of human rights abuses in Ethiopia's Ogaden region.
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Two top UN human rights officials on Thursday stopped short of classifying the situation in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region as a genocide, but said that crimes against humanity and war crimes have &quot;probably occurred on a large and systematic scale.