Bloomsbury expert on BBC TV China-Sudan oil exposé
8 August 2008
Africa-Asia researcher Dan Large spoke about China's oil interests in Sudan on a BBC Panorama programme that accused Beijing of fuelling the war in Dafur.
Large is a member of the London International Development Centre (LIDC) - a collaboration between SOAS and five other Bloomsbury Colleges and one of the UK's largest academic groupings on development issues. He is also Research Director of the Africa-Asia Centre, a new research collaboration between SOAS and the Royal African Society.
In the "China's secret war" investigation broadcast on July 14, he cited the importance of China in Sudan's oil sector, which supplies some seven per cent of the China's oil imports.
The programme also revealed that China had broken the 2005 UN arms embargo by supplying Sudan with army lorries and training its pilots to fly Chinese-supplied jets which have been deployed in Dafur.
The US government has described Sudan's campaign in Dafur as genocide, and the international criminal court has accused the country's president Omar al-Bashir of crimes against humanity.
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