Senator Frist: Sanction threat won't end Darfur crisis.
/The U.S. Senate majority leader said on Tuesday the threat
of sanctions against Sudan is not enough to stop what he called a
campaign of genocide being waged by Arab militiamen in Sudan's
western region of Darfur. Bill Frist, the Republican senator for the
state of Tennessee, also rejected the findings of a European
Union (EU) fact-finding mission which said there was no evidence
of genocide but found that killing in Darfur was widespread. Last
month the U.S. Congress passed a resolution declaring that
genocide was occurring in Darfur. "What is going on in Darfur is
genocide. I disagree with the statement made by the European
Union," Frist told a news conference in Nairobi following a
week-long visit to Chad and southern Sudan. He did not visit
Darfur in western Sudan. [more]
