Amnesty International urged the United Nations Security Council to impose a comprehensive arms restriction on South Sudan after receiving reports of Chinese small arms and ammunition supply to the warring parties.
In a statement Amnesty said China supplied one thousand tonnes of small arms and light weapons worth 38 million US Dollars to the country two weeks ago.
Amnesty International Researcher Elizabeth Ashamu Deng lamented that ‘China is playing a dangerous diplomatic game with South Sudanese lives, providing peacekeeping troops to protect civilians and supplying a thousand tonnes of arms for fuelling atrocities.
The Security Council of which China is a permanent member already condemned violations of international humanitarian law in the country including extrajudicial executions and ethnic targeted violence.
The statement added that UN arms embargo would stop gross violations of human rights and war crimes by preventing direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of arms to South Sudan.
Chinese state-owned defence manufacturer NORINCO sent more than one thousand tonnes containing rocket systems, automatic rifles and grenade launchers, 20 thousand grenades, pistols and machine guns and several million rounds of ammunition.