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General Bashir’s Genocide, Again
We’ve seen this before.

By Nina Shea

Today Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Sudan's western province of Darfur to seek an end to what appears to be the early stages of genocide there. The U.N. Genocide Convention defines genocide as "killing" or "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life" intended "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." It is the most heinous of all human-rights crimes and, after the Nazi Holocaust, prompted avowals of "never again." It is morally and legally incumbent on the civilized world to prevent genocide, and the Bush administration is to be commended for taking the lead by elevating the Darfur crisis to an American foreign-policy priority.
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