Sudan minister attacks UN over rights

Sudan's Justice Minister Mohamed Bushara Dosa has issued a statement claiming that the UN has the wrong picture of what is happening in the Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile provinces. According to Minister Dosa, the facts coming out of the region are distorted and untrue. He claims Sudan will continue to work with the UN in the field of human rights. These statements were in response to a UN report stating that the "Sudanese army had carried out killings, arbitrary arrests, abductions, attacks on churches and aerial bombardment in the Southern Kordofan region that, if proven, might constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity." He hopes that Khartoum's aid in ending the conflict in Darfur will be taken as a sign that Sudan's government is trying to end conflict and violence not spread it further.

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Nicole LeDonne