(Philadelphia Inquirer) Editorial - The government of Sudan was recently rewarded at the UN's annual Human Rights Convention in Geneva with a human-rights "upgrade." Moreover, the U.S. State Department shortly after issued a report that seriously understated Khartoum's human-rights abuses and its intransigence in peace negotiations. In Sudan, more than 2 million have been killed in the war, overwhelmingly non-Arab civilians in the south. Sudan has by far the world's greatest population of internally displaced persons, estimated at more than 4 million.
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