Tough questions for Sudan's president
Posted: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:53 PM
By Ann Curry, NBC News Correspondent & Anchor
How does one interview a man accused of unleashing genocide?
Flying now to Sudan, in a matter of hours I am to come face to face with President Omar al-Bashir, whom the world lays most of the blame for the atrocities in Darfur.
It was al-Bashir, international observers say, who armed Arab militias to put down a rebellion among the black African tribes in Sudan's Darfur region, encouraging old racial hatreds to burn out of control across the region. The toll is estimated at more than a thousand villages burned, more than 200,000 people killed and 2.5 million others displaced. The violence has bled across Sudan's western border into Chad, and it's southern border into the Central African Republic, theatening an entire region.
Click here to read more of Ann Curry's blog in The Daily Nightly about preparing for her interview with Sudan's president. Watch her interview on NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams on Monday evening.
