Seven demonstrators were killed in Sudan on Monday, one of the bloodiest days of the crackdown on the mobilization against military power, which has not weakened since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane’s coup in late October.
On Monday, thousands of Sudanese demonstrated in Khartoum, not far from the presidential palace, as well as elsewhere in the country. In the capital, supporters of the establishment of a civilian power came under “live ammunition” fire, but also a rain of tear gas and sound grenades and fire from water cannons, report doctors. Seven demonstrators were mowed down by live ammunition, they said.
In all, since the October 25 putsch, 71 demonstrators have been killed. The police, for their part, ensure that one of their generals was stabbed to death on Thursday by demonstrators who, they warn, will be judged according to the exceptional laws of the state of emergency decreed on the day of the coup. State of the Chief of the Army.
In a country where soldiers and paramilitaries are already accused of abuses, and in particular, recently, of the rape of a dozen demonstrators, a new decision by the generals in power makes us fear the worst.
Whether around the presidential palace in Khartoum or in the suburbs, such as Omdurman, the police pursued the protesters in the surrounding streets with tear gas and sound canisters on Monday afternoon. They also regularly attack the wounded and doctors in hospitals, is indignant at the World Health Organization.
In the evening, hundreds of demonstrators sought to block the streets of the capital and its suburbs to denounce the violence, while the main civil bloc, the Forces of Freedom and Change, decreed two days of civil disobedience from Tuesday. .
In New York, 9 of the 15 member countries of the UN Security Council have called on “all parties to exercise the utmost restraint”, while the United Nations mission in Khartoum is trying to organize a dialogue to relaunch a transition towards democracy, brutally interrupted on October 25.