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...lies. There were real geopolitical and business motives for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. H. Christian Eggenberger Platja d'Aro, Spain Accountability for Sudan Simon Robinson's report "Nowhere to Hide" [July 5], on the humanitarian crisis and the genocidal atrocities affecting the Darfurians, non-Arab blacks of Sudan's Darfur region, left me disgusted. I'm convinced that our world is doomed to a brutal and sad end. The article noted, "The U.N. and the U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide - in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse...
...another officer, Captain Annemette Hommel, mistreated Iraqis at the Danish base north of Basra. Hommel was formally charged with negligence. She denies any wrongdoing. Unwelcome Guests SUDAN Tens of thousands of people marched in Khartoum in a state-sponsored protest, above, against possible Western intervention in the war-torn Darfur region. The protesters said they would launch a jihad if Western troops set foot in the country. Australia and Britain have both volunteered troops for a military force to protect civilians in Darfur, where the U.N., U.S. and aid agencies say the Janjaweed militia have killed as many...
...brutalize its own people, not to bomb people, not to arm militias to attack people, not to support people who engage in the burning of villages and rape." JOHN C. DANFORTH, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, calling for sanctions against the Sudanese government over the conflict in Darfur...
...economic sanctions against Sudan. The draft resolution had demanded automatic sanctions for noncompliance, but that was softened after several Security Council members, including China and Russia, objected. As many as 50,000 people have been killed in fighting and attacks by the militia, known as the Janjaweed, in the Darfur region of western Sudan. More than a million have been forced to flee their homes. The Sudanese, who deny they are backing the militias, say they will do everything they can to comply. "Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other...
...Sudanese government has to be stopped from killing the non-Arabs in Darfur,” she wrote. To achieve a ceasefire, “external political pressure [must be levied] on the government if not the threat of coercive measures from the U.N. Security Council...