A Sudanese man was killed Sunday in a crackdown on protesters against a military coup, doctors said, as a UN envoy began a visit to the country where violence has escalated since the generals seized power in October.
As thousands of protesters marched on Khartoum, a 51-year-old man was shot in the chest, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Medical Association said in a statement, adding that 82 people had been killed since General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s October 25 coup.
He was a hospital patient, who had been “mutilated” and went out on the balcony trying to breathe because he was drowning from “tear gas” that had been thrown “inside the hospital”, the club explained.
Security forces made extensive use of tear gases, pressurized water launcher and crown-flash grenades against the protesters in Khartoum and its suburbs, found journalists of the French agency. Fire was also heard.
The development came as the UN’s human rights expert in Sudan, Senegalese Andama Dieng, began his first visit since the military coup.
He met yesterday with the UN special envoy to Khartoum, Volker Pertes, and is also expected to meet with various leaders and members of so-called civil society to try to shed light on the violence.
The military junta acknowledged that some officers and soldiers had opened fire on protesters but said it had never given such an order, while accusing protesters of stabbing a police general to death in January.
Mr Dieng’s arrival, originally scheduled for January, has been delayed by the Sudanese authorities, who have been criticized by the international community for its bloody crackdown and ongoing arrests of militants.
More than a hundred protest organizers, protesters and politicians are in jail, and many of them have recently gone on hunger strike to denounce the “ill-treatment” they say they are being held in custody.
Mr Dieng had said in January that he was “very concerned” about the “deteriorating” human rights situation in the African country.
The crackdown and the crackdown, however, have not diminished the mobilizations, nor the crowds that often take to the streets to demand that General Burhan relinquish power and that the armed forces “return to the barracks.”
“We will be protesting for a whole year,” said Thuyamba Ahmed, a 24-year-old student who took part in a rally in Khartoum yesterday.
An indication of how divided the country remains is that supporters of Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted in 2019 under the pressure of a popular uprising, were also on the streets yesterday.
Dozens of them gathered in front of Khartoum court to express their support for Ibrahim Gadour, the ousted dictator’s former foreign minister.
The former minister, who has been on hunger strike for a month, as well as other former officials of the Bashir regime, had been brought to court for a new hearing as part of his prosecution for the failed July 2020 coup.
SOURCE: AMPE
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