Bush Administration Calls Sudan Violence Genocide
In a new signal of its concern over the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, the Bush administration Thursday declared for the first time that the African country's troops and allied militias have committed genocide. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell told senators that a State Department report drawn from interviews with 1,000 Sudanese refugees had concluded there was a "consistent and widespread pattern of atrocities committed against non-Arab villagers" in the Darfur region. Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Powell said that the Sudanese government and its militia allies, known as "janjaweed," "bear responsibility" for the atrocities and that "genocide may still be occurring."
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