U.N. Must Quickly Focus on Darfur, warns Human Rights Watch

2004-04-29

The United Nations Security Council should not focus exclusively on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Darfur, western Sudan, but also on the human rights emergency that is its cause, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Security Council members released today.

Sudanese refugees from Darfur arrive in Chad. The Sudanese government and allied militias are using a campaign of murder, rape, destruction and terror against civilians of the same ethnic groups as the rebel groups in western Sudan. © 2004 Private

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