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09-03-2004, 03:24 AM
       
NANTUCKET, Mass., Sept. 2 - Senator John Kerry called on President Bush on Thursday to take the lead in stopping the killing of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan by declaring it a genocide, pushing for tough United Nations sanctions on the government, backing the deployment of an international force and raising money for relief aid.
As a United Nations special envoy, Jan Pronk, briefed the Security Council in New York on his findings that Sudan had failed to rein in the Arab militias attacking black Africans in Darfur, Mr. Kerry said the choice facing the Bush administration was "whether to give Sudan another pass or, finally, to punish the real perpetrators of the violence."
"Many governments want to evade the issue yet again," Mr. Kerry said in a statement. "I hope ours will not be one of them."
NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/politics/campaign/03sudan.html)
NANTUCKET, Mass., Sept. 2 - Senator John Kerry called on President Bush on Thursday to take the lead in stopping the killing of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan by declaring it a genocide, pushing for tough United Nations sanctions on the government, backing the deployment of an international force and raising money for relief aid.
As a United Nations special envoy, Jan Pronk, briefed the Security Council in New York on his findings that Sudan had failed to rein in the Arab militias attacking black Africans in Darfur, Mr. Kerry said the choice facing the Bush administration was "whether to give Sudan another pass or, finally, to punish the real perpetrators of the violence."
"Many governments want to evade the issue yet again," Mr. Kerry said in a statement. "I hope ours will not be one of them."
NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/politics/campaign/03sudan.html)