Sudan: doctors are alarmed by the use of explosive bullets in the crackdown
A protester waving a Sudanese flag during a day of mobilization against the coup, October 30, 2021. AP - Marwan Ali
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The Sudanese resistance committees are calling for a new mobilization, Wednesday, November 17, against the coup d'état of October 25.
Since then, at least 23 Sudanese have been killed in several episodes of repression.
In hospitals in Khartoum, several doctors are concerned after noticing unusual and particularly severe injuries, which appear to have been caused by explosive bullets, prohibited under international law.
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With our special correspondent in Khartoum,
Florence Morice
Doctor Ali Saddiq was on duty at Aliaa hospital in the suburbs of Khartoum on October 25, the day of the coup d'état led by
General Burhan in Sudan
, when he had to take care of a young Sudanese seriously injured during the shots that rang out in the capital that day:
“
It was strange.
He had been shot in the back, but we couldn't find where the bullet came out.
We did a radio, but we didn't see a bullet ... Only a whole bunch of little dots.
When he was operated on, it looked like his lungs had been pulverized.
It was not a normal injury.
It's as if it had exploded.
The patient died a week later.
Saturday, November 13,
during the demonstration
, same scenario in several hospitals in Khartoum.
At Royal Care, four of the 29 patients admitted that day also suffered from this type of injury, says Dr. Salman Oussama:
“
I had never seen this type of injury before.
One of the patients had been shot in the neck, and all the arteries in his neck were affected.
While operating it, we were surprised by the extent of the damage.
A classic bullet can't do this, unless it explodes inside.
We didn't know what to do.
It is impossible to remove all the fragments without worsening the patient's condition ...
"
After this demonstration, the Sudanese police denied having fired live ammunition and assured to have limited themselves to a "
minimal use
" of force against the demonstrators.
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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan