Sudan insists militias will be prosecuted

Sudan’s foreign minister today insisted that Arab militias responsible for killings in the troubled Darfur region would be prosecuted, but again denied that the attacks amounted to genocide.

Mustafa Osman Ismail met today with his Dutch counterpart, Ben Bot, a day after meeting with European Union officials in Brussels to discuss Darfur, where at least 30,000 have died in attacks by the so-called “Janjaweed” militiamen.