Excerpt Chinese sales of assault rifles and other weapons to Sudan have grown rapidly during the conflict in the western Darfur region despite a UN arms embargo, according to a US-based rights group.
Human Rights First said on Thursday that a study of Sudanese and UN trade data showed that China was virtually the only supplier of small arms to Sudan.
Khartoum pays for the weapons it buys from Beijing with its growing oil revenues, the rights group said.
"The people of Sudan's Darfur region will endure more death, disease and dislocation, and this will be due in no small part to China's callousness," the report said.
The group called on Beijing to stop all arms sales to Sudan and urged the world to link that campaign to the Beijing Olympics.
"We believe that China is particularly vulnerable in the lead up to the Olympics, Betsy Apple, a spokeswoman for Human Rights First, said.
"We want to see China's concrete action that matches its rhetoric."
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