Sudan: two demonstrators killed during a rally denouncing the military coup – franceinfo

Two demonstrators were killed by security forces in Omdurman (Sudan), Khartoum’s twin city, on Saturday, October 30, during protests denouncing the military coup, announced a union of pro-democracy doctors.

Opponents of this military coup in Sudan are demonstrating against General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane, and are determined to put the democratic transition back on track despite five days of murderous repression. These new deaths bring to eleven the number of protesters killed since the head of the army, on Monday, announced the dissolution of all the country’s institutions.

The risk of another bloodbath in a country plagued by conflict in no way weakens the determination of the demonstrators, assures AFP pro-democracy activist Tahani Abbas. “The military will not rule us”, she says. And the “manifestation of the million” Saturday, promised on social networks and by graffiti on the walls of Khartoum – where the authorities have cut the internet and the telephone network – is just one “first step”.

On Saturday, a first parade started from Omdurman, witnesses said, as security forces crisscrossed the capital, blocked bridges connecting it to its suburbs and searched passers-by and cars.