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Powell Calls Sudan Crisis 'Genocide'

By Jason Beaubien

Published September 8, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

Secretary of State Colin Powell says abuses committed by government-supported Arab militias in Sudan's Darfur region qualify as genocide. That determination intensifies pressure on Sudan to stem the violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than a million. Hear NPR's Jason Beaubien.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.