The new opposition march coincides with inter-community tension in Blue Nile state, under curfew
July 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Sudanese Army has entered a state of maximum alert before the beginning this Sunday of a massive protest in Khartoum, called by the opposition represented in the Resistance Committees, opposed to the military regime that governs the country, and in the midst of serious inter-community tensions that have left more than 30 dead in the state of Blue Nile, right now under curfew.
The Sudanese Resistance Committees hope to gather more than a million people to demand that the military allow once and for all the organization of a civilian government after years of disputes after the revolution that ended the dictatorship of Omar Hassan al Bashir in 2019.
In a statement collected by the ‘Sudan Ajbar’ portal, the committees assure that they have no intention “neither to legitimize nor to recognize the military component that governs the country”, hence the call for this new concentration under the slogan “Sudan is a single country”, who intends to address the Presidential Palace.
According to witnesses on the website, the central area of Khartoum, where the palace and several strategic facilities such as the Army General Command are located, are now full of soldiers, and the authorities have closed the bridges that connect the capital with the sister cities of Omdurman and Khartoum North to prevent protesters from reaching the vicinity.
The repression of the security forces against the protests that began in October last year, when the military, led by Abdelfatá al-Burhan, definitively assumed power, have already left more than a hundred dead, nine of them in a suppressed demonstration with particular virulence at the end of last month.
“Our objective is clear and it is decreed based on the peaceful resistance that we have started since the coup of October 25”, the spokesman for the committees, Muhamad Omar Anwar, explained to ‘The Independent Arabia’, “which is to bring the revolution from December to the end, through a civilian and democratic government, and without the tutelage of the military component that unjustly seized power”.
Meanwhile, the state of Blue Nile is under curfew after inter-community clashes that have left at least 33 dead and at least 39 injured during the clashes that took place from Monday to Friday between the Berti and Hausa communities, in the Qissan municipality, for the possession of some land.
Qissan, and the entire state in general, has been the scene of conflict since 1986. There, the guerrillas have been a serious problem for the authorities for decades, both for the deposed dictator Al Bashir and for the military junta that now controls the country.
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