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How football fans can campaign against sportswashing | Letter

There are ways to raise your voice against Manchester City’s owners and their links to Sudan while remaining supporters, says Kathryn Fletcher, in response to an article by Barney RonayThank 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. Continue reading...

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