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More on Sudan and genocide:

• Brutal conflict in Sudan brings warnings by Bush and Annan | A conflict raging in Sudan came under heightened international scrutiny yesterday as President Bush called on the government there to rein in militias and the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, raised the alarm about reported atrocities. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Unrest in Sudan's west | An escalating revolt in western Sudan's Darfur region threatens to blindside international efforts backed by the United States, now near completion, to end a 21-year-old civil war between the Muslim Arab-dominated government in Khartoum and its predominantly black southern rivals, the Southern People's Liberation Movement (Washington Times)
  
  
• Don't Let Sudan Become Another Rwanda, United Methodist Mission Leader Urges | The head of the United Methodist international mission agency is calling on the world's nations to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda by acting to ward off a potential bloodbath in Sudan. (United Methodist News Service, via Reuters)
  
  
• U.N. chief urges watch against genocide | The world must stay alert for warning signs of future genocides to prevent a repeat of massacres like that in Rwanda, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Reflecting on Rwandan lessons | Ten years ago this week in Rwanda, thousands of hate-filled Hutu extremists launched a well organized, 100-day campaign of killing that left more than 800,000 of their countrymen dead. Most of those killed, raped, and mutilated were Tutsis - the rest were pro-coexistence Hutus. (Helena Cobban, Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Ten years later, Rwanda mourns | Genocide victims honored as survivors stitch new lives (Washington Post)
  
  
• Seeking healing from the horror | Rwandans and Americans recall the genocide and look for lessons (Washington Post)
  
  
• Rwanda unites to remember days of horror | A decade after Rwanda's brutal genocide, its people stood in silence for three minutes yesterday to remember the massacre of up to a million of their countrymen. (Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• The forgotten genocide | The mass murder of the Armenian population of Ottoman Turkey was, as the Holocaust scholar Israel Charny put it, the "prototype" of 20th-century genocide. In 1894, and again with even greater ferocity in 1915, the Turkish government engaged in a deliberate strategy of straightforward massacre, transplantation, death marches, and forced conversion to Islam. (Daily Telegraph, UK)
  
  

Terrorism:

• Germany: Muslim groups denounce terrorism | Two Muslim umbrella organizations in Germany have issued a statement condemning all forms of terrorism as un-Islamic. (Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic)
  
  
• EU, U.S. Express concern at grave abuses in N. Korea | The European Union (EU), backed by countries including the United States, expressed concern on Thursday at reports of grave and systematic abuses in North Korea, including ``infanticide in prison and labor camps.'' "All-pervasive and severe restrictions'' on freedoms of thought, religion, expression and assembly are also cited. (Reuters)
  
  
• Don't forget the Holy Land, say faith leaders | In their Easter message, the Patriarchs and heads of Churches said they deplored all acts of terrorism. "We cannot believe it is God's will for anyone to endanger the lives and homes of innocent people." They spoke of the painful situation in the Holy Land: "the lack of jobs, the lack of security, the dark future, and the peace seeming so distant". (Church Times, UK)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48