U.N. Envoy Calls Darfur Crisis a War Crime
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U.N. envoys told the Security Council Thursday that war crimes had probably taken place on "a large and systematic scale" in Sudan's Darfur region and called for foreign police to help stop abuses.
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The UN Security Council is to send a delegation to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region to witness the crisis there first hand, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said.
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The UN Human Rights Council on Monday blamed Sudan for gross human rights abuses in Darfur in a report that charged Khartoum with direct involvement in war crimes in the region.
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The UN chief says Sudan's leaders could be held personally responsible for the worsening crisis in Darfur.
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The U.N. human rights chief on Wednesday urged the Security Council to immediately refer abuses in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, while Kofi Annan called for "urgent action" to end the violence in the vast region in western Sudan.
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The international community is "getting nowhere" with the crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, said.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 18 -- The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Saturday threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a U.N. 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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The UN says 'crimes against humanity,' not 'genocide,' were committed in Sudan; sends problem to world court.
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Khartoum - The United Nations special envoy to Sudan on Wednesday blamed ethnic minority rebels in Darfur for the deaths earlier this month of two humanitarian aid workers in the war-torn region.
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A United Nations human rights mission on Monday accused the government of Sudan of orchestrating and taking part in international crimes in Darfur.
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The world should hold Darfur rebels accountable for breaking their promises to end violence in the region of western Sudan, the U.N. envoy to Khartoum said on Thursday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday demanded speedy prosecution of Sudanese officials and militiamen guilty of crimes against humanity in Darfur, as members of the Security Council came under renewed pressure to put teeth into threats punish those responsible.
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The Sudanese government has orchestrated war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur and resisted international attempts to intervene, according to a report Monday from a high-level U.N. human rights team that was itself barred from the restive region by Sudanese officials.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan -- The former US ambassador to the United Nations visited a camp for the displaced in the troubled Darfur region yesterday and sharply criticized Sudan, the United Nations, the US government, and the international community as doing too little to stem the humanitarian crisis.
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United Nations, Oct 1 (PTI) The United Nations has called for sending an international police force to stop abuses in Sudan&#39;s trouble-torn region of Darfur where war crimes have probably occurred on large scale.
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U.N. envoys told the Security  Council on Thursday that war crimes had probably occurred on "a  large and systematic scale" in Sudan's Darfur region and called  for foreign police to help stop abuses.
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UNITED NATIONS  - The United Nations' Canadian human rights chief urged the Security Council on Wednesday to immediately refer abuses in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court.