State Singles Out Sudan
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The ongoing genocide in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region was the world’s worst human rights abuse last year, America said Tuesday in a global report that found freedoms eroding in numerous other nations, including war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq.
In its annual survey of human rights practices, the State Department cited progress in some countries but stressed a series of “sobering realities” reflecting a significant deterioriation in conditions in some of the world’s most populous states like China and Russia. America has joined both of those countries in diplomatic efforts to resolve nuclear confrontations with Iran and North Korea.
“Genocide was the most sobering reality of all,” it said in the 2006 “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” noting that mass killings continued to “ravage” Darfur nearly 60 years after the world vowed “Never again!” following the Holocaust.
