China biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan: rights group

By AFP | via (uncensored) Yahoo! News
March 14, 2008

China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan following three years of increased sales that helped fuel violence in the African nation's Darfur region, a US-based rights group has said.

From 2004 to 2006, China sold over 55 million dollars worth of small arms to the Sudanese government, which then armed the Arab militias accused of genocide in Darfur, Human Rights First said in a report released on Thursday.

"While other countries were decreasing their arms sales to Khartoum, China stepped in to fill the void by providing Sudan with some 90 percent of its small arms during 2004-2006," Human Rights First said.

"This makes China the single largest provider of small arms to Sudan."

>> Read complete article