British Legislators Write Letter to China’s Leader Asking for Help Ending Sudan Conflict – AP

On China’s role in Darfur, here is another proposal. From AP, via International Herald Tribune:

More than 100 British legislators have written a letter to China’s government urging it to take greater responsibility for ending the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, a human rights group said Monday.

The letter, addressed to Chinese President Hu Jintao, calls on China to review its policy of providing arms to the Sudanese government, international rights organization Crisis Action said…

Darfur’s ethnic African rebels took arms in 2003 against the Arab-dominated central Sudanese government, accusing it of decades of discrimination. Khartoum is accused of retaliating with mass violence against civilians that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced over 2.5 million people, largely ethnic Africans.

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(Image of China’s peacekeepers to Darfur)

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