According to a union of doctors pro democracy, a protester was killed in Khartoum.
Le Monde with AFP
Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated, Sunday, January 30, Khartoum, Kassala and Wad Madani, Darfur, Kosti or Dongola and Atbara to denounce the Putsch of General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane and claim justice and democracy .
Despite weapon soldiers blocking roads and bridges and concrete blocks in front of the army’s QG and the presidential palace in Khartoum, the mobilization does not seem to falter, more than three months after the coup de launched October 25 by the head of the army.
And this despite the repression which, from Putsch, made 79 dead in the ranks of the protesters, according to a union of doctors pro democracy. The last of them is a 27-year-old man with the chest in Khartoum, reports this union claiming not to be able to specify in the immediate future the nature of the wound.
Preventive arrests
It can be a bullet, as has often been the case in the past, or a tearful pomegranate having hit him full whip, as has been the case for several wounded around the Presidential Palace, immediately transported by comrades, as a journalist from France-Press (AFP) has seen on site. As with any mobilization against military power, the authorities rewrked up 45 activists over the last three days according to local resistance committees.
While Washington warned that continuing the repression could “have consequences”, the authorities announced having “confiscated arms” of filmed soldiers pulling in Kalashnikov on protesters, but say they still need testimonials from protesters. When the police had announced mid-January that one of his generals had been stabbed by protesters, a man presented as the author of the mortal blows had been arrested in a few hours.
In the face of critics, the authorities say also investigate on another file: the “embassies that do not respect diplomatic uses”, reports the official news agency.
Once again, despite everything, the UN recalled that “restrict freedom of expression and gathering will lead to more tension”. “We call on the authorities to let the protests unfold without violence,” says his mission to Khartoum.
Army support events
Always deprived of international help in retaliation in Putsch, the country, one of the poorest in the world, is increasingly divided. As just before the coup, competing processions now parade Khartoum.
Wednesday, the supporters of the army had conspired by the United Nations and his initiative to dialogue before his HQ. The United Nations emissary in Sudan, Volker Perthes, denounced “NCP friends”, the Party of the National Congress of the Dictator Omar Al-Bachir.