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October 22, 2010

As China denies-Excerpts from a piece I wrote with my son Ronan in 2007

Published in The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2007
 The 'Genocide Olympics'
  By RONAN FARROW and MIA FARROW
 
 
"One World, One Dream" is China's slogan for  its 2008 Olympics. But there is one nightmare that China shouldn't be allowed  to sweep under the rug. That nightmare is Darfur, where more than 400,000 people  have been killed and more than two-and-a-half million driven from flaming  villages by the Chinese-backed government of Sudan.
 
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 China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing  purchases an overwhelming majority of Sudan's annual oil exports and  state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. -- an official partner of the  upcoming Olympic Games -- owns the largest shares in each of Sudan's two major  oil consortia. The Sudanese government uses as much as 80% of proceeds from  those sales to fund its brutal Janjaweed proxy militia and purchase their  instruments of destruction: bombers, assault helicopters, armored vehicles and  small arms, most of them of Chinese manufacture. Airstrips constructed and  operated by the Chinese have been used to launch bombing campaigns on villages.  And China has used its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly  obstruct efforts by the U.S. and the U.K. to introduce peacekeepers to curtail  the slaughter.
 

As one of the few players whose support is indispensable  to Sudan- Beijing is uniquely positioned to put a stop to the  slaughter, yet they have so far been unabashed in their refusal to do so.
 
 
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