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With renewed mass protests against the ruling military council in Sudan tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the capital Khartoum and other cities in the country. They followed an appeal from the Civil Society Alliance Sudanese Professional Association (SPA), which had called for a march of millions. The participants called for the resignation of the Transitional Military Council and the establishment of a civilian government.
According to the protest committee related medical committee five protesters were killed. There were four dead in the city of Omdurman, another dead in the city of Atbara. Several seriously injured people hit by bullets from militia members of the military council were treated in hospitals and provinces in hospitals.
A huge crowd marches through the suburb of al-Sahafa in Khartoum
In several parts of the city of Khartoum, as well as in Omdurman on the other side of the Nile, police fired tear gas grenades, according to a SPA spokesman. According to eyewitness reports, there were also tear gas attacks against demonstrators in the eastern city of Gadaref. It was the first mass protests since the violent dissolution of the central protest camp in the capital on 3 June.
The new protests are a reaction to the refusal of the Military Transitional Council to relinquish power to a civilian government and the recent intimidation of opposition figures. Security forces had searched the organization's offices and prevented a press conference scheduled for Saturday night, according to a statement by the SPA.
Warnings of the military
The dreaded paramilitary unit RSF armed with machine guns was present in several places in Khartoum. He would not tolerate "vandalism," warned unit leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The military council warned the protesters' Alliance for Freedom and Change, which had called for the demonstrations that it would "fully blame them" if anything happened to anyone.
The director of Deutsche Welle, Peter Limbourg, commented on the situation in Sudan on Twitter on Saturday.
Bloody eviction of a sitting blockade
According to the opposition, at least 118 people were killed and around 500 injured during the violent eviction of a protest camp in Khartoum in early June. Officials reported the death toll at 61. The military regime has taken responsibility for the massacre, but continues to reject the transfer of power to a civilian government.
At the beginning of April, after months of mass protests, the military deposed President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for three decades. The African Union has suspended Sudan's membership until the establishment of a civilian transitional government. Among other things, a compromise between Ethiopia and Ethiopia provides for the formation of a joint government in which civilians are in the majority. Civil society supported the proposal, but the Transitional Military Council has not yet given its consent.
Appeal from Washington
On Saturday, the US, Britain and Norway called for the military leadership in Sudan to renounce violence. People have the right to freedom of expression and assembly, according to a troika release published by the State Department. The Military Transitional Council should respect these rights and allow peaceful protests. The United States, Britain and Norway supported the demands of the Sudanese people for a peaceful transition to democracy in Sudan. Promote the mediation efforts of Ethiopia and the African Union.
kle / as (epd, dpa, ape, afpe, rtre)
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