Save Darfur Coalition says Bush’s sanctions for Sudan may be too late

May 29, 2007 (WASHINGTON) — The director of the Save Darfur Coalition says economic sanctions against Sudan announced this morning by President Bush may be “too little, too late.”

200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced from attacks that erupted in 2003. Darfur’s ethnic African tribes rebelled against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government. Sudanese leaders are accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia to put down the rebels using murder, rape and mutilation. They deny the charges.

The Bush administration has called it genocide. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been told to draft a UN resolution to increase international pressure on Sudan.

But coalition director David Rubenstein warns against allowing months to elapse before action is taken. He says, “the Darfuri people don’t have that much time.”

(AP)