This Thursday, thousands of demonstrators mobilized across Sudan to demonstrate against military rule.
Thousands of demonstrators mobilized across Sudan on Thursday against military power, after the arrest of figures of civil power, dismissed during the October coup.
Under a cloud of black, white, red and green Sudanese flags, opponents of the putsch marched in Khartoum and its northwestern suburb, Omdurman, brandishing the portraits of the 79 demonstrators killed in the repression since the coup d’etat of the General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, October 25, 2021.
“Don’t trust the army, they will betray you,” they chanted. “The street will never do it.”
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Security forces fired tear gas canisters at those who tried to approach the presidential palace, where the head of the army, General Burhane, sits.
In the evening, as the demonstrators dispersed, the police again fired tear gas at them, according to witnesses.
The international community once again protested Wednesday’s return to detention of the government spokesman sacked during the coup. Khalid Omer Yousif was arrested by police officers in the middle of a meeting of pro-civilians at the headquarters of an opposition party.
“Arbitrary detentions” that “undermine efforts to resolve the crisis”
Along with him, Wagdi Saleh, a spokesman for the Forces for Freedom and Change (FLC), the country’s main civilian political bloc, was also arrested.
The authorities have detained, more or less briefly, hundreds of politicians, journalists, activists, demonstrators or even simple passers-by in their repression which does not weaken, despite calls for dialogue.
The military responded well to the UN’s invitations, as did civil society. But, regularly, the same scenario is repeated: shortly after a meeting with the UN envoy Volker Perthes, figures of the pro-civilian bloc are arrested.
MM. Saleh and Youssef were thus the day before their arrest in the premises of the United Nations.
These “arbitrary detentions (…) undermine efforts to resolve the crisis”, repeated Wednesday the American charge d’affaires Lucy Tamlyn and the Norwegian ambassador Therese Loken Gheziel.
If the West’s calls for dialogue seem to be unheeded, General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, number 2 in military power, has returned from the United Arab Emirates, one of the countries that called for the restoration of the transition process towards a civil power.
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