ReportingAt least fifteen people were killed and hundreds injured in Khartoum and its suburbs on Wednesday, bringing the repression toll to 39 since the coup.
The earth is still wet, the tombstone not yet engraved. Ismail Taj al-Sir lays a hand on the mound of earth where his brother’s remains lie. In the other, he holds a photo of the deceased, Luay, the youngest of the family. The body of this school teacher, pierced by two bullets, one in his left hand, the other in the chest, lay the day before in the morgue of al-Duwali hospital in Bahri, twin city of Khartoum, which it is separated by the waters of the Blue Nile.
The city mourns its “martyrs” the day after the deadliest day since the military coup led by General Abdel Fattah al-Bourhane on October 25 and the arrest of almost all of the civilian representatives of the authorities. of transition. Popular and protesting, the northern suburbs of the Sudanese capital is the one that was the most severely hit by the repression, Wednesday, November 17. At least fifteen people were killed and hundreds injured that day, bringing the repression toll to 39 since the putsch. The next day, the funeral processions followed one another.
“My brother has taught all his life. Teachers are an essential link in our society. This is what generals murder “, denounces Ismail Taj al-Sir, recalling that since December 2018, his brother has participated peacefully in all the demonstrations against Omar al-Bashir to demand “The advent of a new Sudan” and that he was opposed, for the same reasons, to the coup de force of the generals.
“Unacceptable killings”
On Thursday, the European Union (EU) denounced “Unacceptable senseless killings”, while the UN special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly called on the international community to “Put pressure on the country to immediately end the repression “. The Central Committee of the Forces for Freedom and Change, the coalition of civilian parties that shared power with the military until October 25, called Wednesday’s killings ” crime against humanity “.
These denunciations, pressures or threats to suspend aid or diplomatic support from abroad and from within do not make the putschists back down. On the contrary. In Bahri, several witnesses claim to have seen soldiers block the road to several ambulances loaded with wounded. Nurses and journalists present there were allegedly attacked by the police. As the main hospital was full, makeshift clinics had to be improvised in several houses.
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