U.N. investigators arrived in Sudan to determine if genocide took place in Darfur and investigate reports of human rights violations in the war-torn province, a U.N. spokesman said Monday. The U.N. mission in Sudan, meanwhile, is still being denied access to much of south Darfur and officials are concerned about the fate of thousands of displaced people who were kicked out of a major camp last week, spokesman Fred Eckhard said. The team from the International Commission of Inquiry will travel to Darfur, in western Sudan, on Wednesday and stay until Nov. 20 to gather evidence, according to Eckhard. He said the team arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Sunday night.
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