Working toward a deal in Sudan - Politico

Date: 
Feb 1, 2010
Author: 
Ben Smith

Working toward a deal in Sudan

The Enough Project's question about Sudan, above, topped the list of questions for President Obama, but his response is unlikely to thrill advocates.

Obama spoke of genocide there in the past tense -- though his administration's official stand is that there is "ongoing genocide" in the region, and though his envoy, Scott Gration, was forced to walk back his pronouncement that the genocide was over.

"Because of the genocide that took place earlier, a lot of these villages are now destroyed," Obama said of the difficulty in resettling Darfurian regugees.

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