Reuters Feb 12, 2008

Demonstrators gather outside of the Chinese Embassy in London, on February 12, 2008, calling on China to intervene in the Darfur crisis before the Olympic Games in Beijing later this year. China ships arms to the Sudanese government, contravening a U.N. arms embargo. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)

In more than four years of conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur, 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes

WASHINGTON—A group of Nobel Peace laureates sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urging the Beijing Games host to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing its ally Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur.

"As the primary economic, military and political partner of the Government of Sudan, and as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China has both the opportunity and the responsibility to contribute to a just peace in Darfur," said the letter.

"Ongoing failure to rise to this responsibility amounts, in our view, to support for a government that continues to carry out atrocities against its own people," said the letter, released on a day of events by the Save Darfur Coalition.

The letter was signed by Nobel Peace laureates Bishop Carlos Belo, Shirin Ebadi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Betty Williams and Jody Williams. Other signatories included Western politicians, former Olympic athletes and entertainers, including actress Mia Farrow.

Farrow has spearheaded the coalition's global campaign to press China to change its policies in Sudan. Beijing sells weapons to the Sudanese government and buys oil from it.

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 More of the worlds people are waking up to atrocities the Chinese Communist Party commits. I've got some petitions to sign for anyone who is interested.

http://declaration.epochtimes.com/

http://boycott2008games.blogspot.com/2007/03/prof-links-darfur-2008-genocide.html