Sudan: another day of deadly demonstrations in Khartoum
Sudanese anti-coup protesters hide as riot police try to disperse them with a water cannon.
Khartoum, this Thursday, June 30, 2022. AFP - -
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Eight months after General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's coup, tens of thousands of people once again took to the streets of major cities in Sudan on Thursday, June 30, to demand the departure of the military junta.
In the capital, huge crowds converged on the presidential palace.
They came up against a massive deployment of security forces who locked down the city center.
The crackdown left at least eight people dead.
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From the morning, all communications were cut off in Sudan, except for international calls.
Early on, protesters began gathering neighborhood by neighborhood to converge on the presidential palace together.
Several processions notably succeeded in crossing the bridges which lead to the city center of Khartoum, on which imposing containers had been deployed to block the passage.
Impossible to estimate the number of demonstrators.
As at every gathering, the internet and telephone network were severely disrupted.
For Hamid, who came from Barhi, a northern district of Khartoum, the mobilization was important.
Around me there are a lot of flags representing the different neighborhoods, a lot of people from different walks of life, men, women, children… Everyone took to the streets to say no to the military, to return in their barracks.
The morale is pretty good, because the mobilization is really important, more than usual.
And then the more time passes, the more we feel that the military regime is weakening.
But we are realistic, we know that the situation will not change in 24 hours.
Today is an important day but it is not the end of our struggle.
In the afternoon, violence broke out.
According to a union of doctors, close to the protest, several demonstrators were shot dead by the security forces, who also raided hospitals to arrest the injured demonstrators.
The repression continued after dark, even though the processions had begun to disperse.
On Wednesday, the United Nations envoy to Sudan, as well as several embassies, called on the authorities to avoid violence.
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