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Obasanjo View On Genocide

The East African Standard (Nairobi)
NEWS
December 5, 2004
Posted to the web December 6, 2004

By Ken Ramani
Nairobi
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says he's unconvinced genocide is taking
place in Darfur, western Sudan.
Over the weekend, he dismissed the United State's determination that "genocide"
is being inflicted on Darfur's indigenous black Africans.
When asked at an interview with CNN if he agreed with the call on Darfur by the
US administration, Obasanjo replied: "Now, what I know of Sudan does not fit in
all respects of that definition-genocide".
"The government of Sudan can be condemned, but it's not as genocide" Obasanjo
said hours after meeting President George Bush at the White House.
Obasanjo poured cold water on outgoing Secretary of State, Colin Powell who has
been lamenting that other nations have not joined the US in declaring genocide
is underway in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur.
Obasanjo said he agreed with Bush there is an acute problem in the region that
needs to be addressed.

   

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