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Powell: Attacks in Sudan Are 'Genocide'

NPR | By Michele Kelemen

Published September 9, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Secretary of State Colin Powell for the first time labels as genocide the atrocities Arab militias are committing against black African farmers in western Sudan. Powell spoke as the United States is proposing a U.N. resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

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