Pressure on Sudan to End Crisis Grows

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THE WORLD
Pressure on Sudan to End Crisis Grows
Government plays down the violence, but a rights group says atrocities in Darfur are continuing. The U.N. and a senator also criticize the nation.
By Robyn Dixon Times Staff Writer August 11, 2004

NAIROBI, Kenya — Rapes and atrocities are continuing in Sudan's Darfur region and the government's claim that it is acting to stop the violence is not credible, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be released today.

The report is the second this week by an international rights group. On Monday, Amnesty International called on the Sudanese government to stop arrests and intimidation of people who had told foreign delegations about the violence. It cited at least 47 cases, including men who spoke to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell during his visit in June.

Stepping up criticism of Sudan, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), on a visit to the region, described the events in Darfur, in the country's west, as genocide. At a news conference Tuesday, he rejected a European Union finding this week that genocide was not unfolding.<snip>

Frist suggested that giving the government more time to disarm the militias would only hurt those villagers who have been driven from their homes.<snip>

The State Department is investigating the situation.

Not by a damned sight....

This situation is a textbook illustration of circumstances in which outside military intervention is not only desireable but required. The Khartoum government should be assailed today: its state buildings and facilities smashed from the air, its economic assets rendered inoperable, its military concentrations broken up with slaughter. It could be easily achieved, and nothing less will serve to bring its campaign of genocide to a halt. One of the worst features of the current situation in Iraq is precisely the mortgage it has attached to U.S. military power, which renders its proper use impossible.

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"