In Sudan, thousands of people again demonstrated against the coup in several cities across the country. It was the 21st so-called “million” march against the October 25 putsch. This Monday, the demonstration was violently repressed.
Monday, February 28, the UN mission in Sudan, which has been meeting for a month with leaders of the military power and representatives of civil society, reiterated its calls for a partnership between civilians and soldiers to break the impasse. But for four months, the demonstrators categorically refuse any negotiation with the junta.
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The resistance committees on Sunday proposed a political charter aimed at unifying all civilian forces to overthrow the putschists. Which for the moment do not yield anything. This Monday, the demonstration was violently repressed. Dozens of injured, and two demonstrators were killed by the police bearing the toll since October 25 to 85 people.
Doctors denounce the attacks
In the north of Khartoum, a child was killed by a bullet in the stomach. And in the nearby town of Oumdurman, a young protester was shot in the head. The words are believed, they are those of the Sudanese doctors who denounce targeted assassinations while 90% of the victims of the repression were targeted in the upper body. Doctors also denounce a new attack by the police in hospitals, this Monday tear gas was launched in an operating room.
In the streets, in addition to tear gas and stun grenades, the police fired live ammunition, sometimes with large calibers, to drive back the demonstrators who had reached the gates of the presidential palace for the second time in four months. The peaceful processions had to turn back.
At the end of the day, gangs of police officers and members of the intelligence services dressed in civilian clothes chased the demonstrators in the alleys of the residential districts. Armed with sticks or Kalashnikovs, they multiplied beatings and arrests. A merchant claimed that his shop was robbed by men in uniform.