Sakharov Prize winner tells EU to send troops not money
On Tuesday, human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman received the European Parliament’s 2007 Sakharov Prize, in Strasbourg, where he again accused the Sudanese government of waging a campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Darfur and called upon European governments to send soldiers to the region.
Independent estimates put the number of dead in Darfur since early 2003 at 200,000 with 2.5 million uprooted from their homes. Khartoum says 9,000 have died; Osman and the EU parliament put the figure at more than 400,000. “None of the perpetrators has been brought to justice,” said Osman in his acceptance speech, “all perpetrators are beyond the reach of domestic justice. This conflict is one which is marked by a culture of total impunity.”
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