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March 18, 2009

Obama to Appoint Darfur Envoy
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President Obama is set to appoint a special envoy on the crisis in the
Sudanese region of Darfur. The New York Times reports Obama will name
Major General J. Scott Gration later today. The move comes as Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton intensified criticism of Sudan on Tuesday at
the State Department.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “The real question is what kind of
pressure can be brought to bear on President Bashir and the government
in Khartoum to understand that they will be held responsible for every
single death that occurs in those camps, because by their expulsion of
the aid workers who came from all over the world to assist with the
health and the sanitation and the security and the education of the
refugees, they are putting those 1.4 million lives at risk.”

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir expelled thirteen aid groups
from Darfur after the International Criminal Court indicted him on
charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.



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