After the military coup of October 25, the spearheads of the anti-Bashir revolution want to relaunch a movement that has run out of steam.
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“The people want Burhane down.” Three years after the start of the revolution in Sudan which overthrew Omar al-Bashir after 30 years of dictatorship, the pro-civilians took to the streets again on Sunday, December 19. They demand the end of the power of the army which suspended the democratic transition.
After the military coup of October 25 led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane and a repression that has since left 45 dead and hundreds injured, the spearheads of the anti-Bashir revolution also intend to revive a movement that has run out of steam among the 45 million Sudanese stuck in inflation at over 300%.
Riot police were deployed at major crossroads in Khartoum, while Sudanese authorities closed bridges connecting the center of the capital with western and northern suburbs. According to witnesses to Agence France Presse, the police fired tear gas canisters to disperse thousands of demonstrators gathered near the presidential palace in Khartoum.
On December 19, 2018, faced with the economic slump in which Bashir’s Sudan was plunged, under international embargo, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese demonstrated, forcing the army to dismiss the dictator four months later. If the Sudanese had chosen that day, it was because in 1955, on the same date, the Parliament of the country still under British control had proclaimed independence.