US Tries to Walk Back From Comments Downplaying Genocide in Darfur - ABC News

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Date: 
Jun 18, 2009
Author: 
Elizabeth Gorman and Devin Dwyer

 ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration's comments yesterday that Darfur is experiencing only the "remnants of genocide," thus implying the troubled region's worst violence is in the past, have exposed a deep disagreement on the matter within the Obama administration.

Just two days earlier US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice described the situation as "genocide" and at a press conference in Germany earlier this month President Obama used the phrase "ongoing genocide."

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