The United Nations said Wednesday that it backs the opinion of the commander of the hybrid African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission, who said that the situation in Darfur is not genocide. General Martin Luther Agway's remarks came Tuesday in Rwanda Asked by the Saudi Press Agency (S.P.A.) whether the United Nations backed Agway's characterization, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed the world body does not term the crisis as “genocide.” “The International Criminal Court, which has international jurisdiction over crimes of genocide, is now entrusted [by the Security Council] to look into any mass atrocities, but the U.N. itself has not defined the situation in Darfur as genocide,” the U.N. spokesperson said.
