Sudan: Politics: U.N. Team Splits Hairs Over Sudan Genocide

1 February 2005

New York — A U.N. special commission, which refused to declare the widespread killings in Sudan to be acts of "genocide," has been criticised for restraining its condemnation of the massacre of some 400,000 Sudanese in that politically troubled African nation.

Reacting to the 177-page report released by the commission Monday, Claudio Cordone of Amnesty International said "the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Darfur region of Sudan are no less serious than genocide."

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