A protester was killed on Wednesday June 29 in a crackdown on protests that continue in Sudan more than eight months after a military coup that upended the transition to civilian rule, doctors said.
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The protester, who has not yet been identified, died after receiving a “bullet in the chestat rallies in northern Khartoum, the pro-democracy doctors’ union said. The latest death brings the toll of the crackdown on anti-coup protests, which have been taking place regularly since the October 25 putsch led by the government, to 103. army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, according to the union.
End to a fragile division of power
Wednesday’s protests took place in the streets of several neighborhoods around Khartoum where hundreds of protesters called for mass take to the streets on June 30, witnesses said. The putsch brutally ended a fragile division of power concluded between civilians and soldiers after the dismissal by the army in 2019 of dictator Omar al-Bashir in power for three decades.
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On June 8, the UN, the African Union and the East African regional organization Igad launched a dialogue to try to end the political impasse in Sudan, but the initiative was boycotted by the main civil blocs. . The Freedom and Change Forces (FLC), the main civilian group, are calling in particular for an end to the repression and the release of prisoners before any dialogue with the military authorities.