Ottawa urged to keep Canadian weapons out of Sudan's civil war

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares to visit the United Arab Emirates, human rights advocates are calling on his government to do more to stop the flow of weapons from the UAE to a militia in Sudan committing atrocious acts of ethnic violence.

While the UAE insists it isn’t arming the Rapid Support Forces militia, numerous human rights groups say they believe planes meant to carry humanitarian aid from the UAE to Sudan are regularly delivering weapons instead.

Some groups say they believe these shipments include Canadian-made arms.

“Governments like Canada have both an opportunity to show what the values that we speak of these days so loudly, what they actually mean when they’re put to test,” said World Vision Canada’s policy director Martin Fischer.

“Canadian-made weapons