Bush Announces New Sanctions Against Darfur
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush ordered new American economic sanctions Tuesday to pressure Sudan’s government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide.
The sanctions target government-run companies involved in Sudan’s oil industry, and three individuals, including a rebel leader suspected of being involved in the violence in Darfur.
“For too long the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombintg, murder and rape of innocent civilians,” the president said. “My administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide.
“The world has a responsibility to put an end to it,” Mr. Bush said.
