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 Annan condemns lack of action over Darfur: July 2
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Annan condemns lack of action over Darfur
LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - The conflict in Sudan's Darfur region could grow into a repeat of the Rwandan genocide but the world seems to have learned nothing from its slow response to that tragedy, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said.
"Are we going to repeat what happened in Rwanda?" Annan told a BBC Panorama documentary entitled "Never Again" to be aired on Sunday.
"Is it going to be another Rwanda? And can we ... if that is it, can we sit back and not act," he said, in some of the strongest language he has used about the crisis.
Asked how history would judge the international response, Annan said: "Quite likely that we were slow, hesitant, uncaring and that we have learned nothing from Rwanda."
An estimated 180,000 people have died from fighting, hunger and disease in Darfur, in Sudan's west, and 2 million people have fled their homes to escape slaughter, pillaging and rape in what the United States has termed "acts of genocide".
John Danforth, a former U.S. envoy to Sudan and Ambassador to the United Nations, told the programme America could not consider military intervention in Darfur following its involvement in Iraq.
"I think that one of the lessons of Iraq is that even if you think the military action is justified, it's difficult and it's not something that's completed quickly," he said.
"With respect to Sudan, this is a very large country and if there was to be a military invasion ... the question that I think is always going to be raised after Iraq (is) how long do you plan to stay there and what's your future obligation?"
The U.N. Security Council has referred Darfur to the International Criminal court to investigate the alleged crimes.
An African Union force of more than 2,300 soldiers and hundreds of civilian police are deployed in Darfur to monitor a ceasefire agreed in April last year between mostly non-Arab rebels and the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum.
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