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Article

11 Aug 2006

Author:
Amnesty International

People’s Republic of China: Sustaining conflict and human rights abuses - The flow of arms accelerates

China is emerging as one of the world’s major arms exporters...For example, China has continued to allow military equipment to be sent to Sudan despite well-documented and widespread killings, rapes and abductions by government armed forces and allied military groups in Darfur. In Nepal, China has supplied small arms and light weapons to the armed forces, which have been responsible for much of the killings and torture, often of civilians, in the internal armed conflict. Lethal force has also been used on pro-democracy protests in Nepal, resulting in torture, arbitrary arrests, unwarranted injuries and even deaths. In South Africa, guns seized from armed criminals have frequently been of Chinese origin...China has sold military trucks produced by the Chinese company Dong Feng to Myanmar and Sudan. Dong Feng produces a range of military vehicles. It exports under the name Dongfeng Aeolus...Both the EQ2082E6D and EQ2001E6D models are powered by diesel engines made by the US company, Cummins.