Washington, DC — American military personnel are working with African Union monitors in the Sudanese region of Darfur to help bring the attacking militias under control and restore security to the area, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a student audience at Georgetown University September 10.
On September 9, Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pressing the cause of a United Nations resolution on Darfur that would declare the violent actions of the Arab Sudanese Jingaweit militias against the black African residents of the region to be genocide, and establish specific sanctions against the Sudanese government and the militias.
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