Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, face of the longed-for transition to democratic civilian rule in Sudan, announced his resignation on Sunday night (2), two months after the country’s military coup d’état and after days of violent repression.
In a speech broadcast on public TV, Hamdok admitted that he had failed in his attempt to reach a consensus and warned that the “survival” of Sudan is now “threatened”.
According to him, the different political forces in this country that emerged in 2019 from a 30-year-old Islamist-military dictatorship, headed by Omar al Bashir, are too “fragmented”. In addition, the civil and military leaders have irreconcilable positions for a “consensus” to end “a bloodbath” and make the motto of the 2019 revolt a reality: “Freedom, peace and justice”.
This former UN economist, who managed to get part of Sudan’s debt buried and lifted the country out of international isolation, has not had a moment of rest since the October 25, 2021 coup.
That day, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, commander of the army, ordered his house arrest. And along with it, that of all those who embodied the transition to civilian rule since 2019.
General Burhan extended his term for two years and a month after dissolving the institutions, he returned to putting Hamdok in the position of prime minister, but after having replaced several officials of this civil transition.
– “Neither association nor negotiation” –
By accepting a deal with Burhan, Hamdok has gone from being a hero to a traitor to many Sudanese. Protesters who criticized Burhan in the streets also began to criticize him. In a country practically ruled by the military for the last 65 years, most citizens want “neither association nor negotiation” with the army.
And they say it loud and clear, even though they put their lives at risk, as happened this Sunday when thousands of Sudanese returned to the streets and three of them died at the hands of security forces, shot and beaten.
Since October 25, at least 57 civilians have died in the violent crackdown on these protests and hundreds have been wounded.
Since early Sunday morning, security forces have blocked the bridges connecting Khartoum with the suburbs and the main roads in the capital, as they do whenever demonstrations against the coup are called.
In addition, the authorities once again cut off access to the mobile internet and the operation of cell phones for hours. And members of the security forces guarded pedestrians from atop heavy armored vehicles.
Despite this mobilization, thousands of protesters attended this Sunday the summons “in memory of the martyrs” of the violent repression.
– “Power to the people” –
The demonstrators again called for the military to return to their barracks and were violently dispersed as they approached the outskirts of the presidential palace, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.
The protesters stressed that in 2022 they must “continue the resistance” and are calling for justice not only for the civilians killed since the coup, but also for the more than 250 people killed during the popular “revolution” of 2019, which forced the army to expel Bashir .
In addition to the deaths and the cuts in telephones and internet, the UN denounces the rape of at least 13 protesters in December in a country that, since its independence 65 years ago, has almost always been under military control.
European countries had already expressed their outrage at the escalation of violence, as had US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the UN.
All regularly defend the return of dialogue as a precondition for the resumption of international aid, which was interrupted after the coup d’état.
Blinken had already warned that the United States was “ready to respond to anyone who wants to prevent the Sudanese from continuing to aspire to a civil and democratic government.”
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