New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The U.N.'s top human rights body held a one-day special session Friday to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan's Darfur region and other atrocities blamed on paramilitary forces fighting the army in the northeast African country.

Also Friday, Sudan's military leader said his side wouldn't negotiate a truce with the paramilitary group, known as Rapid Support Forces, and that fighting would continue until the group is eradicated, indicating little likelihood for an early end to the conflict.

The Human Rights Council in Geneva also passed an unopposed resolution calling on an existing team of independent experts to carry out an urgent inquiry into the killings and other rights violations in the city o...