China Applies Pressure on Sudan to End Genocide

Nice to see someone is doing something.

From Reuters:

Chinese President Hu Jintao told Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Friday Khartoum had to resolve the four-year-old conflict in Darfur, a source said after talks between the two leaders.

The source did not elaborate on the comments by Hu, who Western leaders hoped would use his first trip to Sudan, China's third-largest African trading partner, to press Bashir to accept U.N. peacekeepers in the western region.

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