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Default BBC Investigation: China Untrustworthy Treaty Signatory

Did you know that there is no character in the Chinese language for
the word INTEGRITY? Deceit and lying is deeply ingrained in their
culture and is considered an acceptable practice. The sooner the rest
of the world learns this truth the safer it will be.

Boycott everything Chinese and email Radio China International
http://english.cri.cn/ and tell them why.

China Breaking UN Embargo In Sudan: BBC report : Selling Weapons
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=341_1216005464

LONDON (AFP) - China is breaking the United Nations arms embargo on
Sudan, providing military equipment and training pilots to fly Chinese
jets, the BBC said Sunday, citing an investigation by its journalists.

Citing two confidential sources, the broadcaster said China was
training pilots to fly Chinese Fantan fighter jets, and that Sudan had
imported several fighter trainers called K8s two years ago.

It obtained satellite photographs of the planes, reportedly believed
to have been delivered to Sudan in 2003 -- the UN arms embargo was
imposed in March 2005 -- at an airport in Nyala in south Darfur last
month.

The BBC said it had established, without citing its sources, that the
jets were flying out of Nyala on missions in February.

The broadcaster said that China had declined to comment on the report,
which will be broadcast Monday evening.

A UN panel of experts had asked to examine the evidence compiled by
the documentary team, the BBC added.

The investigators said they had also found one Dong Feng Chinese army
lorry in the hands of a rebel group in Darfur.



It cited independent eyewitness testimony saying the lorry had been
captured from Sudanese government forces in December.

A second lorry was filmed by rebels using a BBC camera. Both vehicles
were carrying anti-aircraft guns, one of which was Chinese, said the
broadcaster.

Serial numbers on both lorries showed they were part of a batch of 212
Dong Feng lorries traced by the UN as having been sent to Sudan after
the 2005 arms embargo was imposed.

The anti-aircraft guns had been installed after they arrived in Sudan.

According to the BBC, quoting witnesses, the anti-aircraft guns were
fired into civilian houses in the town of Sirba in west Darfur in
December.

Monday's BBC report will come the same day that the chief prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court in The Hague is expected to name
the President Omar al-Beshir of Sudan a war crimes suspect.

The Darfur conflict began in 2003 when ethnic minority rebels took up
arms against the Arab-dominated regime and state-backed militias,
fighting for resources and power in one of the most remote and
deprived places on earth.

The UN has said that 300,000 people have died in Darfur and more than
2.2 million have been displaced since 2003 -- the Sudanese government
puts the number of fatalities at 10,000.

China, the main buyer of Sudan's oil and a key investor in the
economy, has repeatedly been accused of not doing enough to make
Khartoum stop the brutal campaign.
 
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