Amnesty International anklager Russland og Kina for å ha levert våpen til Sudan for millioner, samtidig som de to landene sitter i Sikkerhetsrådet og vedtar våpenembargo.

The Amnesty report said that Sudan had imported more than $70 million (£35 million) in arms, parts and aircraft from China in 2005 and more than $30 million (£15 million) in aircraft and helicopters from Russia in the same year, according to data from Khartoum. Weapons from both countries have been implicated in raids carried out by the Sudanese Government and militias on civilians, according to Amnesty.

«The authority of the Security Council itself is being greatly undermined as the Sudanese authorities and armed groups in Darfur are allowed to act with such obvious impunity before the eyes of the world, importing and diverting arms to commit flagrant violations of international law,» the report said.

The UN Security Council first approved an arms embargo for Darfur in 2004 but excluded the Sudanese Government, an omission that was rectified in March 2005. The blockade has always proved difficult to monitor and even harder to enforce, with countries such as Russia, China and Belarus all maintaining active military co-operation agreements with Khartoum.

The lawlessness of Darfur, where 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million more have been forced from their homes by ethnic fighting since 2003, was further illustrated last month by a confidential UN report that found that the Sudanese Armed Forces had painted a Russian-made aircraft in the white livery of the UN and used it to bomb civilians.

Kina benektet tirsdag anklagene.

China denies selling weapons for use in Darfur