JoAnne Allen
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/ 20 March 2007

Sudan denies government role in Darfur

Sudan’s president on Monday denied his government was involved in widespread human rights abuses in Darfur, where an estimated 200 000 people have been killed in what the United States says is the first genocide of this century. Shown a picture of a map depicting burned villages in Sudan’s vast western region during an interview, President Omar al-Bashir called it a ”fabrication”.