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08/09/2004:

"EU: no genocide in Darfur"

The European Union said today that its fact-finding mission to Sudan had found widespread violence in the afflicted region of Darfur, but there was no evidence of genocide.

After returning from western Sudan, Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana, told reporters in Brussels that "it is clear there is widespread, silent and slow killing going on, and village burning of a fairly large scale".

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