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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport

How football fans can campaign against sportswashing

Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England
Etihad Stadium in Manchester. ‘There is no reason to stop supporting the club – your voice is far more powerful as a fan and there are many ways to act.’ Photograph: Matt McNulty/The FA/Getty Images

Thank you, Barney Ronay, for your article on the link between Manchester and the atrocities in Sudan (Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much? 8 November). As a Mancunian, I feel anger and shame at the complicity of our city’s commercial links with the United Arab Emirates, reported to be funding the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are committing war crimes in Darfur.

I work as a medicolegal report writer at Freedom from Torture and have borne witness to the awful impact of the Janjaweed militia (which has morphed into the RSF) on people from Darfur.

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