Washington Finds U.N. Rights Resolution Weak
From Times Wire Reports
The United States called on the United Nations’ top human rights body to condemn “ethnic cleansing” of blacks in Sudan’s Darfur region, comparing it to Rwanda’s genocide.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission is to take up the issue today, but U.S. Ambassador Richard Williamson expressed concern that the wording of a planned resolution was too weak.
U.N. human rights investigators have accused Sudanese government troops and Arab militias of rape, torture and slayings of blacks in Darfur.
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