Activists call to manifest “in memory of the martyrs” of bloody repression and braking a massive safe deployment.
Le Monde with AFP
The repression against the Sudanese protesters continues. The authorities again suspended access to the mobile Internet, Sunday, January 2nd. Activists call to manifest “in memory of the martyrs” of bloody repression and to brave a massive safe deployment.
Since Sunday, the security forces block the bridges connecting Khartoum to its suburbs and the main axes of the capital, as with each call to demonstrate, sometimes adversely on armored armors of imposing machine guns, has noted a journalist of The France-Presse agency (AFP).
While 53 people have been killed and hundreds wounded since the coup of General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane on October 25, the country had a new peak of violence on Thursday. Five protesters claiming a civilian power in Sudan were killed by bullets in Khartoum, according to a union of doctors prémerémocracy.
In camera violence
Violence that took place in camera that day, because the security forces had installed with cranes containers that still block the bridges connecting Khartoum to his suburbs. The authorities had also suspended telephone and mobile Internet communications, while officers arrested and tabac the journalists of two Saudi channels.
Sunday, the protesters hear down again in the streets against the transitional authorities headed by General Bourhane. The country’s strong man prolonged his two-year term with his putsch he describes as “a correction of the revolution course”, having put an endpoint in 2019 to thirty years of Militaro-Islamist dictatorship of Omar Al -Bashir.
The general annoyed, however, to present Sudanese’s 45 million the civilian government that he promised by reinstalling the Civil Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on November 21, after a month of supervised residence. The supporters of a civilian power in Sudan, they call on social networks to make 2022 “the year of the continuation of the resistance”, claiming justice for the dozens of protesters killed from the putsch, but also for the more 250 civilians slaughtered during the 2019 “Revolution”.
Thirteen protesters raped
In a country almost always under the Ferule of the Army since its independence 65 years ago, the protesters also want, as their slogans, that “the military returns to their barracks” and that the country would resume the path of democracy.
Sunday again, the Sudanese authorities will be observed by the international community which denounces an escalation of violence. In addition to the deaths and the cutting of the telecommunications, the security forces are also accused of having used a new repression tool in December: the rape of at least thirteen protesters, according to the UN.