Security Agents Kill 4 Protesters As Thousands Rally In Sudan

Security Agents Kill 4 Protesters As Thousands Rally In Sudan
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Sudanese security forces on Thursday shot and killed four protesters as tens of thousands of demonstrators defied a security lockdown and severed communications to rally against military rule.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that pro-democracy activists have kept up a more than two-month-long campaign of street demonstrations against a military takeover in October.

The crackdown has now seen no fewer than 52 people killed in protest-related violence, according to the independent Doctors’ Committee, which is part of the pro-democracy movement.

On Thursday, security forces killed with live rounds four protesters in Omdurman, twin city of the capital Khartoum, and wounded dozens, they said.

‘We call on doctors to come to the Arbain hospital in Omdurman because the putschists are using live rounds against protesters and preventing ambulances from reaching them,’ they added.

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Their plea was posted on social media accounts of Sudanese living abroad as authorities had severed domestic and international phone lines.

Saudi television Al-Arabiya said several of its journalists had been wounded in an attack by security forces on its Khartoum office.

Another Saudi channel, ASharq, also reported that security forces prevented its reporters from covering the anti-military rallies.

Nevertheless, tens of thousands of protesters braved tear gas chanting “no to military rule” as they marched in rallies in several part of Sudan demanding a transition to a civilian government.

Earlier in the day, demonstrators reached within a few hundred metres (yards) of the presidential palace, the headquarters of top General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who seized power on October 25.

Troops, police and paramilitary units launched multiple tear gas canisters into the crowd.

‘The revolution continues,’ protesters shouted, beating drums and waving flags.

‘No to military rule’ and ‘soldiers back to the barracks’, they chanted in Khartoum and Omdurman.

Security forces deployed in strength across the capital, using shipping containers to block the Nile bridges that connect the capital with Omdurman and other suburbs.

The authorities also installed new surveillance cameras on major thoroughfares for Thursday’s protests.

Protesters said the deal had simply given a cloak of legitimacy to the generals, whom they accuse of trying to reproduce the former regime of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, toppled in 2019 following mass protests.

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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