BNP Paribas To Pay $20 Million Damages For Complicity In Sudan Atrocities

[Archive photo] A Sudanese rebel fighter from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) watches the abandoned village of Chero Kasi burn less than an hour after Janjaweed militiamen set it ablaze in the violence-plagued Darfur region, September 7, 2004. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell told a U.S. congressional committee this week that the ethnic violence in Sudan amounts to "genocide", and a U.S.-sponsored resolution calling for sanctions against the Sudan government was debated at the United N ...