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Arusha, Tanzania - The Canadian who commanded United Nations peacekeepers during the Rwandan genocide said Thursday that world leaders were responsible for the slaughter because they feigned ignorance of what was taking place and did nothing to stop it. Retied Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire told the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that he could do little to blunt the genocide that took the lives of at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. The UN force had a limited mandate and an insufficient number of troops and weapons, and that appeals for reinforcements were rejected, Dallaire told the court Jerusalem - A defiant Ariel Sharon brushed off calls to resign Thursday, vowing to complete his term despite a burgeoning bribery scandal. But even a top official from his own party said Sharon's days as prime minister may be numbered. New York - A federal lawsuit filed Thursday against Attorney General John Ashcroft and other top U.S. officials alleges they knew Maher Arar would be tortured when they deported him to Syria in 2002. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Canadian by the Center for Constitutional Rights, also alleges that U.S. authorities deported Arar, then under suspicion of being connected with al-Qaida, to take advantage of violent interrogation techniques banned in the United States.
