Three protesters were shot dead by security forces in Omdurman, a northwestern suburb of Khartoum, reports a pro-democracy medical union.
To each new call of the supporters of the civil power to demonstrate against the general Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, which led a military coup on October 25, the authorities implement new deterrent techniques.
The internet cut-off was already used for weeks after the coup d’état and containers crossing the access bridges to the capital made their appearance in the demonstrations last Saturday.
This time, security forces have installed cameras for the first time on the main axes of Khartoum, where protesters must gather, confirmed AFP journalists.
In addition, and also for the first time, the military they cut the phone lines.
In calls transmitted by Facebook or Twitter pages of Sudanese living abroad, the doctors ask their colleagues “to come (as reinforcement) to the Arbain hospital in Omdurman because the coup leaders are using live ammunition against the protesters.”
All this did not prevent thousands of protesters from taking to the streets this Thursday shouting “No to military power” and “The military to the barracks! In Khartoum and other cities in the country, such as Kessala Y Port sudan in the east and Madani, in the south of the capital.
A few hundred meters from the presidential palace in Khartoum occupied by the sovereign council led by General Burhan, the security forces fired tear gas grenades.
Already on Wednesday, the US embassy called for an “extreme containment of the use of force”, after the death of at least 48 protesters and hundreds injured in two months of mobilization against the coup authorities.
He also urged the military to avoid “arbitrary arrests” after activists announced new raids on their homes the night before the protests.
On December 19, the third anniversary of the “revolution” that forced the generals to dismiss one of their own, the dictator Omar al Bashir, the security forces were accused by the UN of having raped protesters to break a movement that continues to mobilize tens of thousands of Sudanese.
After taking power by force, General Burhan reestablished Abdullah Hamdok as civil prime minister, but only when the latter agreed to acknowledge the situation after the coup, that is, the extension of Burhan’s mandate by two years.
However, Sudan still does not have a proper government to this day, a sine qua non condition for the resumption of vital international aid for this country, one of the poorest in the world.
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