The Obama administration has agreed to host high-level talks with a Sudanese delegation that includes known war criminals and state sponsors of terror.
The State Department announced Monday that a Sudanese delegation led by senior figures in the National Congress Party (NCP) has agreed to visit Washington, D.C., for “candid discussion on the conflicts and humanitarian crises within Sudan,”according to the Associated Press.
U.S. policy has traditionally shunned genocidal Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his NCP, which is considered a state sponsor of terror for crimes carried out in Sudan’s Darfur region where ethnic cleansing began in 2003.
The talks will be be helmed by Nafie Ali Nafie, an al-Bashir adviser and key NCP official who has been cited by watchdog groups for his role in the Darfur massacres.
“The man the Obama administration will be speaking with has blood on his hands, quite literally,” the Sudanese peace activist group Girifna wrote in aletter to President Barack Obama on Monday.
