Sudan: new large-scale mobilization against the military regime
A protester in Khartoum, Sudan, April 6, 2022. REUTERS - MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH
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The organizers had promised a real "
earthquake
".
Thousands of people demonstrated across the country, this Wednesday, April 6, 2022, to demand the departure of the military junta which took full power last October.
A significant mobilization despite the repression which still killed one person.
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Khartoum, Port-Sudan, Kassala (in the East), El-Fasher, Nyala, Al-Jenina (in Darfur), Atbara (in the North), Madani (in the South),
thousands of Sudanese demonstrated
across the country against the ruling junta.
A significant mobilization, despite the Ramadan fast and a temperature of more than 40 degrees.
The mobilization is not weakening, explains one of the organizers of the march in Khartoum.
The Sudanese can't take it anymore, he adds: “
People don't want to wait any longer, they just want the junta to leave power, to leave.
The generals have been in power for 54 years, they have destroyed the country.
The economic situation today is dramatic, we have no more gasoline to run the cars, no more electricity.
Power cuts last for hours and now, as Ramadan begins, people can't even buy bread.
It's awful
.
»
As we approach the third anniversary of the fall of former President Omar al-Bashir, the repression is still as harsh.
On Wednesday, at least one 19-year-old protester was shot dead, according to the Sudanese Doctors Association, which added that security forces stormed a hospital in the capital, firing tear gas canisters at it.
As for the arrests, these are continuing.
The twenty personalities arrested two months ago are still being held without charge, including Khaled Omar Youssef, former minister of the civilian government or Muhammad al-Faki Suleiman, former head of the committee responsible for dismantling the structures
of the regime of Omar el- Bashir
.
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