Sudan: UN Panel to Probe Genocide Claims in Darfur
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has set up a commission of inquiry to investigate and determine whether genocide has been committed in Sudan&#39;s strife-torn western region of Darfur.
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Excerpts from a report by a U.N. human rights team investigating crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The UN Security Council has approved a resolution threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless it halts atrocities in Darfur. The resolution also orders an investigation into charges that the terror in Darfur constitutes genocide.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council yesterday adopted a resolution threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a UN commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese authorities and militias are responsible for committing genocide there.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday that they felt vindicated by a U.N. investigation that found that atrocities in Sudan's western Darfur region did not amount to genocide. But they disagreed with the United Nations' call to prosecute Sudanese government and military officials for crimes against humanity.
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European Union foreign ministers called Monday for the United Nations to "immediately investigate" whether atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region constitute genocide, highlighting growing impatience with the Sudanese government for failing to end the conflict.
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Sudan promised to protect civilians in Darfur yesterday, responding to Saturday&#39;s UN security council resolution threatening the regime with oil sanctions and ordering an inquiry into whether the atrocities in the region constitute genocide.
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The UN Security Council said it would hold a meeting on the tense situation in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region next Monday following the ambush killing of two Rwandan peacekeepers there.
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The Sudanese government on Thursday  defended its human rights record to a United Nations panel,  faulting rebel groups for not stopping &quot;gross violations&quot; in  its conflict-torn Darfur region.
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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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His time at the helm of the world body nearing an end, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stepped up his efforts Tuesday to force a halt to atrocities in Darfur, demanding the U.N. Human Rights Council send an independent team of investigators to the volatile Sudanese region.
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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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GENEVA -- A U.N. human rights team investigating crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region zeroed in on the international community Monday for the first time, accusing the world's governments of an "inadequate and ineffective" response to widespread atrocities.
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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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UNITED NATIONS -- UN envoys told the Security Council yesterday that war crimes had probably taken place on &quot;a large and systematic scale&quot; in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.
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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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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.