Sudan: three dead in a new anti-coup demonstration
Sudanese demonstrators march against the coup and the ruling junta in Khartoum on January 24, 2022. AFP - -
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Three demonstrators were again killed in Sudan on Monday June 24 during a new anti-coup demonstration.
Popular protest against the coup is not weakening, despite the repression which has killed 75 demonstrators since October 25 and new raids.
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With our correspondent in Nairobi,
Florence Morice
This Monday again, it was towards the presidential palace that the demonstrators tried to converge in Khartoum, at the place where General Burhan, who has
de facto
led Sudan since his coup, sits.
A sign of the protesters' determination not to give in to repression.
Because this is where most of the victims killed by bullets last week were counted.
For several hours, according to witnesses, the surroundings of the building were literally submerged under tear gas fire.
"Live
ammunition
" was also fired, according to the Central Committee of Doctors, which has constantly denounced "
excessive use of violence
" by the security forces.
"
The power of the people
", "
the people have chosen the civilians
" continue to chant the demonstrators in Khartoum, but also in other cities of the country, in Gedaref and Port-Sudan in particular.
The resistance committees, the real backbone of the mobilization, also denounced numerous arrests in their ranks during raids carried out on Sunday evening on the eve of the march.
24 hours earlier already, Amira Osman, activist and defender of women's rights was arrested at her home according to the general secretary of her association, by "
thirty men armed with guns, whips
" and "
hooded
" specifies this source .
A group of around 30 people, belonging to the security forces, arrived at [Amira Osman's] house in the middle of the night.
They forced the door of the house, entered her room to force her to come with them.
She insisted on changing, they pushed her.
They brutalized his family.
Since her family hasn't heard from them, intelligence says they haven't, no one knows where she is.
She is one of the best known activists in the country.
Hala Al Karib, from the civil society organization Siha
Alexandra Brangeon
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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan