Chinese unit must leave, rebels say
From Times Wire Reports
Rebels demanded Beijing pull its peacekeepers out of Darfur hours after a unit of Chinese army engineers flew into the Sudanese region to pave the way for a 26,000-strong United Nations-African Union force in the region, where four years of conflict have left up to 200,000 people dead.
The Justice and Equality Movement said it would not allow the engineers into areas it holds. It accused Beijing, the largest supplier of arms to Sudan, of stoking the crisis by supporting the government in Khartoum.
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