The activists intend to oblige the army to return power to civilians after General Abdel Fattah al-Bourhane’s putsch in October 2021.
Le Monde with AFP
Two demonstrators were killed Thursday, June 30, in processions that chanted in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, “the people want the fall of General Abdel Fattah al-Bourhane”, reported pro-Democracy doctors, during a day anti-Putsch mobilization.
Wednesday evening already, when small processions walked here and there calling for mobilization on Thursday, a protester had been killed by a “ball in the chest” in the north of Khartoum, according to doctors. “Even if we must all die, the soldiers will not govern us,” chased the crowd in the northeast suburbs on Thursday of Khartoum.
The activists intend to force the army to return power to civilians after the military putsch of October 2021 which plunged one of the poorest countries in the world in the political and economic slump, and this during a Day in charge of symbols for this great country in East Africa.
June 30 marks two important dates: the anniversary of the putsch which brought the dictator Omar al-Bachir in power in 1989, a coup then carried out in hand by generals and Islamists, and gatherings Monsters in 2019 pushing the generals to integrate civilians into power after having ruled out al-Bachir.
already 105 dead and thousands of injured
The demonstrators want to reiterate the feat of three years ago and enjoin the current new military power arrived by force in October 2021 to return the reins of the country to civilians. As with each call to demonstrate, the Internet and the telephone were difficult to access and the security forces were deployed on various bridges and arteries of Khartoum and its suburbs, noted AFP journalists.
While repression has already killed 105 and thousands of injured, the international community has tried in vain to prevent new deaths. The UN emissary Volker Perthes had pleaded: “Violence must stop”, while several embassies had also called for “no more life to be lost”. But Thursday at the beginning of the afternoon, the doctors already identified two dead: two men “touched in the chest by balls drawn by forces” of security.
After dismissal by the army in 2019 of Omar al-Bachir, in power for three decades, military and civilians had decided to lead Sudan together towards democracy. But on October 25, 2021, the chief of the army, General Al-Bourhane, decided otherwise: he brutally ended the fragile Power sharing by arrested his civil partners.
In retaliation, the international community has cut its aid – 40 % of the Sudan budget – and since the economy is in free fall: the Sudanese book has collapsed, the country is faced with inflation exceeding 200 % And demonstrations against the soldiers take place every week.
“False political solution”
Thursday, the pro-democracy want to “drop the putschists and prevent any artificial alternative”, affirms the civilian Bloc of forces for freedom and change (FLC), a spine of the government dismissed by General Al-Bourhane in October.
The FLCs refuse the “national dialogue” proposed by the army and the UN that they consider as a “false political solution” which “legitimate” the putsch, and therefore pose as a prerequisite for any discussion the return to Power sharing.
The UN, the African Union (AU) and the Igad-African regional organization, as well as Washington, continue to maintain pressure on political actors to find a way out in the country where the spectrum now floats from famine.
Already, a third of the population suffers from “acute food insecurity”, potentially fatal, and by September, this figure should according to the UN to climb and touch one in two Sudanese. Already in early June, the NGO Save the Children announced the death of two children in Darfur, in the west of the country.