May 13, 2004
Sudan's government is guilty of "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against humanity, charges a new report released Friday by Human Rights Watch that accuses government-backed Arab militias of systematic attacks on black Sudanese peasants and government forces of starving black Sudanese to death in concentration camps. Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to permit the safe return of more than one million people forced from their homes in the Darfur region of the country and to demand that Khartoum immediately disarm, disband, and withdraw the Arab militias with which government forces have carried out ethnic cleansing.
































