Al-Yuare, Khartoum – Ten of thousands of protesters marched yesterday all over Sudan’s cities and presented in a clear referendum their rejection of the military coup d’état demanding democracy and the sovereignty of the civil state.
In Khartoum, young and old gathered in their thousands, according to the previously announced schedule, called on by the resistance committees to go out and demonstrate in condemnation of excessive violence and the killing of their comrades in the demonstrations that preceded
The processions moved peacefully from several gathering points in the Sudanese capital at midday yesterday according to their announced paths towards the presidential palace, where processions coming from the north of the capital preceded for the first time others to reach the doors of the presidential palace in what appeared to be the opposite of expectations of the heavy military presence surrounding it, which hastened to fire tear gas and stun grenades among the demonstrators heavily causing many casualties among the them
While it was clear that excessive violence was intended by the security forces, all witnesses mentioned the use of live bullets by security forces and Janjaweed militias towards the demonstrators after they were surrounded, causing several deaths and dozens of serious injuries.
In conjunction with the battle in front of the Republican Palace, security forces used the same excessive violence in many areas of the gatherings of demonstrators around the Sudanese capital, where eyewitnesses in the city of Omdurman mentioned the siege of the security forces of the demonstrators in the areas of Al-Arbaeen street and Abbasiya and on The 60th Street in Khartoum and areas south of Khartoum, where witnesses also mentioned for the second time the use of janjaweed forces and security forces garanade launchers that forbidden to use in residential areas or in the direction of unarmed civilians
The Sudan Doctors Committee later reported that seven protesters were killed and dozens injured.
The UN mission condemned the continued use of violence and live ammunition during today’s demonstrations, saying it was unacceptable. and want this violence to stop. “We reiterate the call for the authorities to stop resorting to violence against peaceful demonstrators and to conduct credible investigations in such cases,” the statement said.
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In continuation of the violence later, units from the security forces attacked the crowds of mourners, heading for the burial cemetery.
At the time of writing, no statements had been made by the coup government regarding what happened on Monday, while several revolutionary forces announced an agreement to declare mass civil disobedience and further escalation against the military establishment.
The Sudanese people have been in a state of widespread tension and anger towards the army and its transitional leaders since the first coup attempt last September and accused by the civilian part of the transitional government of preparing a military coup through alliance with remnants of the former regime, while the military demanded the expansion of civilian participation from outside the revolutionary forces, which was rejected before the announcement of the president of the Sovereignty Council of the transitional government coup Abdel Fattah al-Burhan dissolved the transitional government headed by Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok and put him in custody and abolished key article’s in the The constitutional document on October 25, claiming that it was a correction of the course of the revolution
The Sudanese people automatically took to the streets to reject the coup and declared their three nos by refusing to negotiate, participate or legitimize the coup, forcing the coup d’état to release the prime minister after announcing a political agreement with him to form a civilian military government without the forces of the revolution, but this was rejected by the demonstrators and they continued to go out in large mass marches almost daily from that time until today they said that it will not stop until the overthrow of the regime and the return of democracy. And the departure of the military component of the political process in the country
