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Give Peace A Chance: UNIRIGHTS in Dafur |
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Page 1 of 5 Sudan delegation returns; Findings reflect new UN report: no genocide in Darfur By Askia Muhammad
White House Correspondent
Updated Feb 10, 2005  Give Peace A Chance delegation members pose with Sudanese Ambassador Khidir Haroun Ahmed. MICHAEL DAVIS (UNIRIGHTS, right) Photos: Askia Muhammad
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The ongoing high profile condemnations in this country of the Sudanese government are “counterproductive and inaccurate,” according to a group of Black media, human rights and community leaders who have just returned from that country. “I want to echo the words of the feeling that I got both in the capital and when we traveled to Darfur, of optimism about the future there in Sudan,” Michael Davis, executive director of the Universal Human Rights Network, told reporters at the National Press Club Jan. 25.
“Not only has the government recently signed the peace accord with the North-South rebels, but there’s been a new peace accord with the opposition out of Cairo. So I think that we have a unique opportunity to bring peace to Darfur,” continued Mr. Davis, the former western regional director Amnesty International USA.
On the question of “genocide”...
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