Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
NEW YORK - Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a national anthem - Hatikva - was played yesterday for the first time at the UN General Assembly, and a cantor chanted El Maleh Rahamim, ending an historic special session that commemorated the victims of the Holocaust.
At the same time, speaker after speaker wondered why the vow "never again" was not enough to prevent the genocide in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur.Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Laureate, was the keynote speaker, a rare appearance by a non-statesman or diplomat to speak from the podium of the body that was created in the wake of the horrors of World War II.
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SUDAN: Darfur villages reportedly burnt in fresh violence
24 Jan 2005 15:01:11 GMTSource: IRINNAIROBI, 24 January (IRIN)
Eight villages in the western Sudanese region of Darfur were reportedly burned to the ground on Friday in a fresh outbreak of violence, sources said. An unspecified number of people were killed, the sources added.
Khartoum accuses Darfur rebels of killing scores of civiliansSudan
Politics, 1/24/2005
An official in the Sudanese army said a group of Darfur rebels killed scores of Sudanese and injured others in an attack against villages in al-Malam area to the north of Darfur.The official explained that rebel groups robbed properties and burnt 8 villages in the area which is situated between the two districts of south and north Darfur. But the official did not specify which of the two rebel forces carried out the attack.
U.S. Lawmakers Meet Darfur Rebels
TOM MALITIAssociated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya - U.S. lawmakers who met with Darfur rebels in western Sudan and visited camps for Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend said they will ask Washington to push for U.N. sanctions against the Sudanese government.
