Investing in Tragedy: China's Money, Arms, and Politics in Sudan

A new book by Human Rights First Publication. Lets see how money, arms and politics play the roles in human rights.
Sudan’s Oil and weapons, will the people benefit? hurm~

As the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing approach, the
government of China is promoting itself as a harmonious and peaceful rising world power. But behind this facade is another China, one that places its economic development and energy needs over its human rights responsibilities. Investing in Tragedy makes the case that through its money, arms and politics, China has helped to sustain the violence in the war torn region of Darfur, Sudan. More than five years into the conflict, China continues to strengthen its relationship with the government of Sudan despite the government’s record of mass atrocities in Darfur.

Investing in Tragedy describes the lethal cycle that begins with China buying over 90% of Sudan’s oil exports, a total of $4.7 billion worth of exports in 2006. The Sudanese regime uses its oil revenues to purchase massive quantities of small arms, approximately 90 percent of which have come from China since 2004. Investing in Tragedy also finds that, faced with Khartoum’s blatant defiance of the United Nations arms embargo on transfers to Darfur, China’s continued weapons sales to Sudan put China in the position of also failing to comply with the embargo.
The report recommends that for China to be accepted as the responsible world power it claims to be, it should begin by immediately stopping all weapons sales to Sudan…

for further readings :

(http://www.humanrightsfirst.info/pdf/080311-cah-investing-in-tragedy-report.pdf)

by Hazie Kan <3