The BBC has found the first evidence that China is supplying arms to Sudan’s government forces and training fighter pilots, contravening the UN arms embargo on Darfur:
“Panorama traced the first lorry by travelling deep into the remote deserts of West Darfur.
They found a Chinese Dong Feng army lorry in the hands of one of Darfur’s rebel groups.
The BBC established through independent eyewitness testimony that the rebels had captured it from Sudanese government forces in December.
The rebels filmed a second lorry with the BBC’s camera. Both vehicles had been carrying anti-aircraft guns, one a Chinese gun.
Markings showed that they were from a batch of 212 Dong Feng army lorries that the UN had traced as having arrived in Sudan after the arms embargo was put in place.
The lorries came straight from the factory in China to Sudan and were consigned to Sudan’s defence ministry. The guns were mounted after the lorries were imported from China.”
The BBC has found the first evidence that China is supplying arms to Sudanese government forces and training fighter pilots who fly Chinese jets in Darfur, violating a UN arms embargo. [Read]