While none of the major powers , with the intermittent exception of the United States , have shown any appetite for robust action to protect the people of this Sudanese province from the atrocities visited upon them by the government and its proxy force , known as janjaweed , the Chinese , who buy much of the oil Sudan exports , have appointed themselves Khartoum 's chief protector .
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