Nancy Pelosi: “The situation in the Sudan challenges the conscience of the world, certainly of our country; and I am happy that this…”

“The situation in the Sudan challenges the conscience of the world, certainly of our country; and I am happy that this Congress is responding. ... The Sudanese government has mobilized militias to carry out a scorched-earth policy of indiscriminate attacks on African civilians. As many as 30,000 civilians may have already been murdered, and more than 1 million driven off their land into unprotected camps in the Sudan and neighboring Chad. Both USAID and the United Nations have described these atrocities as 'ethnic cleansing,' and the Committee on Conscience of our own Holocaust Museum has issued a genocide warning for Darfur.”