Sudanese protesters at a rally in Khartoum mourning deaths of many dozens of demonstrators killed last month. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images

Sudanese protesters demand justice after deaths of 120 demonstrators

Aminy Andawi
Politics & Economic
International
Jul 14, 2019
2004
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of town and cities across Sudan on Saturday for pro-democracy protesters killed in weeks of unrest by security forces. The crowds are waving the national flag while chanting “The mother of a martyr is my mother, the blood of a martyr is my blood.”

The political crisis in Sudan began last year until the removal of the country’s long-term president in April, the brutal killing of at least 128 protesters and the rape of many more on 3 June when the military and paramilitary forces takeover.

One of the protesters, a 23-year-old doctor, Tawasol Noury, had marched to remind Sudan’s military rules and the pro-democracy movement about the blood of the martyrs. The protesters then marched to the home of one of the victims who died in the June attack. Everyone who joined the protest said that the protest was patriotic and as an act of demand the right of the martyrs and the accountability for their deaths.

According to some reports, the military leaders were attempting to add a new clause to the agreement that could provide the victims of the violence with some form of immunity. Furthermore, the result of an independent investigation of the killings has been announced with the result of who found guilty will not be allowed to sit on the sovereign council.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/13/sudanese-protesters-demand-justice-after-mass-killings

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