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...rest of the world, meanwhile, seems inclined to do even less. Despite the Sudanese government's unwillingness to rein in the Janjaweed, the Bush Administration has so far failed to persuade the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Khartoum. After 18 months of atrocities in Sudan, the international community has yet to take a single punitive action against the Sudanese government. Opposition to sanctions has come from Arab countries that are sympathetic to Khartoum and from Security Council members, such as Pakistan and China, that are heavily invested in Sudan's emerging oil industry. That has forced...
...troops razed nine villages, according to survivors interviewed by the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based group that studies war crimes and whose research the State Department has used for its genocide assertion. Survivors say that government helicopters targeted civilians inside the villages while Janjaweed rounded up cattle. Khartoum works "hand in glove" with the militias, says Stephanie Frease, special project manager with the coalition. "At this point, all the government has to do is fly an airplane to instill terror, to get people to move...
Five years ago, curators at the British Museum began planning Sudan: Ancient Treasures - 320 objects, some of them 200,000 years old, on loan from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. But about three months ago the curators decided to put some more recent Sudanese artifacts on display as well: items from the western province of Darfur, where the Khartoum government and allied ethnic militias are blamed for killing 50,000 people and uprooting more than 1 million in the past 19 months. The Darfur objects - including a storage basket, toys and an ostrich-feather fan - testify to pastoral ways...
...militiamen accused of killing 30,000 and forcing more than 1.4 million from their homes - United Nations special representative Jan Pronk and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made separate visits to the country's western Darfur region. Pronk will give a report to the Security Council this week. If Khartoum has not made progress it could face international sanctions. Pronk said that Khartoum had taken some positive steps - setting aside safe areas, for instance - but that violence continues. After touring the Abu Shouk refugee camp in northern Darfur, Straw called on Khartoum to make the area secure so that people...
...broke up briefly with rebels staging a 24-hour boycott at week's end: rebel leaders accused Khartoum of a hand in the deaths of dozens of civilians even as negotiations took place. Khartoum remained confident that it would not face sanctions. - By Simon Robinson By a Whistle CZECH REPUBLIC The coalition government of new Prime Minister Stanislav Gross survived a mandatory vote of confidence in parliament, winning by just 101 votes to 99. Gross replaced fellow Social Democrat Vladimír Spidla, who resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross...