Sudan researcher/analyst for 25 yrs; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute; author of "Compromising with Evil"; co-chair, Project Responding to Sexual Violence, Darfur
#SudanUprising
: Extraordinary leaked documents appearing today in The Guardian (UK) reveal the extent of
#Russia
’s meddling in
#African
governance, and in
#Sudan
in particular. Required reading to understand what TMC is counting on for support:
#SudanUprising
: Why can't the world hear and understand the meaning of the voice coming from this vast crowd? Why does the world remain largely silent as innocent Sudanese are killed by indicted génocidaire al-Bashir? The people of Sudan will not forget who was with them, who not
#Sudan
: We must not forget that every person killed by the al-Bashir regime has a face, has a family...was part of a community. It is not a single individuals who are being murdered, but part of Sudan as a whole...
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
#Sudan
: The Washington Post becomes first major editorial board of a Western newspaper to demand al-Bashir regime relinquish power. Some weaknesses in fact/analysis should not obscure the importance of this development. The Post is the most important newspaper in Washington, DC:
The man who did so much to contribute to the flight of more than 350,000 Darfuri refugees to Chad is now attempting to blackmail the international community into recognizing his illegitimate, coup-born military control of Sudan. He cares nothing for the people he threatens to use
#Sudan
signed the
#UN
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (
#CAT
) in 1986, but over more than 30 years, the al-Bashir regime has consistently failed to ratify the Convention, despite repeated commitments to do so.
“The international community should continue to support transition in Sudan despite the military takeover and whoever is the prime minister”—the view of Gibril Ibrahim (Sudan’s Finance Minister). This is same military that sought to destroy Gibril’s people in the
#Darfur
genocide
#SudanUprising
A deeply impressive show of strength in the uprising, and in a critical location (Port Sudan). The uprising is regaining its feet...which forces a decision on the
#TMC
. They must be strongly pushed by the international community to refrain from violence.
Waves of protestors hit the streets in different cities of Sudan today 20th June demanding the fall of the TMC. This protest is in Port Sudan, capital of the Red Sea State.
#SudanUprising
#IAmTheSudanRevolution
#Sudan
is one of only three countries in the work in which new cases of the
#coronavirus
are doubling more frequently than once a week. Truly extraordinary measures must be taken now, with full mobilization of national resources and strictest enforcement of social distancing.
#SudanUprising
: The overwhelming strength of the Sudanese people! It will be sorely tested tomorrow, a day that may well mark the final turning point...
Today in Sudan, people marched through the streets to spread the word about the national strike/civil disobedience set to take place 9th June.
(Social media remains blocked)
(Video Received via WhatsApp)
#SudanUprising
: Police officer who was slaughtered by the
#RSF
/Janjaweed in his own house and in front of his family. This killing is believed to have triggered the resignation of Police Chief General Adil Bashair from TMC on June 8. More such acts of courageous conscience needed
#Sudan
: Where are the voices of the UN? the African Union? the Western democracies? This barbarism is intolerable, and yet it is implicitly tolerated with the tepid responses to date about the deliberate killing of unarmed, peacefully demonstrating civilians
#SudanUprising
One measure of the courage of those who appear and walk in demonstrations is the threat of torture and extra-judicial execution. We have no idea how many have suffered the fate of Abdelrahman el-Saddig (from a highly reliable Sudanese source):
#Sudan
#SudanProtests
#SudanUprising
All this means is al-Bashir is seeking to keep the police on-side with the regime: pay the police.. but forget about medical personnel, sanitation workers, teachers, & many others--the real victims of the collapse of
#Sudan
's economy for which the al-Bashir regime is responsible:
#Sudanese
president Omar al-Bashir said he is looking for way to reform the pay structures for the police on Sunday after days of anti-government protests.
UN security office in
#Sudan
warns of thousands of Rapid Support Forces arriving this afternoon in
#Khartoum
from
#Libya
border area. Given existing tensions between the army and police, arrival of large RSF force makes potential for extreme violence between armed elements high:
#SudanUprising
: Clear evidence that the uprising is losing none of its strength or vigor...this is an extraordinary moment in the history of post-colonial Sudan, indeed perhaps its most important moment. It will define the country for years to come...
#SudanUprising
: These demonstrations were held on March 24 in the old neighborhoods of Omdurman, Khartoum state. There’re other demonstrations across all areas.
#تسقط__بس
Any well-trained sniper with a rifle/scope can shoot accurately enough to target a head in close urban quarters. The number of disturbing images of head wounds suggest snipers have been given "shoot to kill" orders (as in Sept 2013). Who's giving the orders?
#Sudan
#SudanUprising
The courage and resolve of the people of
#Sudan
grows more admirable by the day; the failure of the international community to support more vigorously their aspirations for freedom and justice is disgraceful--acquiescence before the most hateful of tyrannies.
#SudanUprising
The funeral procession for Ahmad al-Qurashi, a 20-year-old student activist shot by the police, drew thousands in Khartoum on Oct. 22, 1964. His death set off Sudan's October Revolution.
#SudaneseCulture
#ثقافة_سودانية
#SudanUprising
: Yet another photograph indicating that al-Bashir security services are disguising their vehicles using the UN logo--an outrageous violation of international law to which the UN leadership should respond with urgency and vehement condemnation.
Video of alleged 'UN vehicle' used by
#Sudan
security forces (in red) does not match standard lettering of UN vehicles in Sudan. It has different colour and lettering. If anyone from Sudan has a high-res video please DM me. h/t to
@ckaratnytsky
,
@GeopoliticalJD
&
@john_marquee
💪
#SudanUprising
: I have greatly admired these many postings of images of Sudan & Sudanese culture. For 20 years I have hoped to see Sudanese people free to enjoy their cultural and geographic splendors: "al-Bashir, just fall, that is all" Many thanks ثقافة سودانية
@SudaneseCulture
#SudanUprising
#CivilDisobedience
This footage is yet again extraordinary: these are the streets of Khartoum today, with extremely few people even in sight, shops shuttered: the general strike and civil disobedience are holding strong.
A deeply disturbing report from a highly reliable source. There has been much talk about how the conflict in
#Khartoum
/
#Sudan
could spread to neighboring countries; fighters from other countries joining
#Hemedti
would be one especially dangerous development.
#SudanUprising
: I will be interviewed by the BBC World Service tomorrow morning at 6am (GMT) about today’s historic events in Sudan; for a schedule of BBC World Service programming, see |
Tomorrow (Saturday, June 8 | 8:30 GMT) Al Jazeera will be airing a lengthy interview I gave earlier this week. A chance for me to give much more extended answers to questions |
#Sudan
:
#Toyota
vehicles are used extensively by al-Bashir regime security forces; Toyota, despite its declared "social responsibility," washes its it hands of all responsibility, despite lofty statement about its "business partners" (which should include third-party "partners"):
Growing prominence of news about what is occurring in
#Sudan
, here in the most important newspaper in the U.S. (Jan 29). This brings increasing pressure on Western govt's to respond vigorously to the murderous barbarism of al-Bashir regime's crackdown on peaceful protests:
Tens of disabled people marching proudly, so able at the very odds of their apparent physical disability, in defiance of all their limitations. As all Sudanese, they show up and join the sit-in in front of the Army’s HQ.
Hats off, cheers to them
#SudanUprising
#HQ_sit_in
This pic was taken yesterday.
Another car window was broken by a tear gas canister & the same thing happened; protestors collected money on spot to help with repair, disproving al Bashir claim that protestors are a bunch of trouble makers.
#SudanUprising
#SudanUprising
: This report strongly suggests the RSF are taking advantage of int'l focus on the greater Khartoum area to move aggressively & with even greater impunity in Darfur. Central Darfur, East Jebel Marra, & South Darfur have been the particular targets of recent attacks
"There is a whole massacre happening: a terrifying amount of live ammunition fired; they're burning homes with their inhabitants inside.
I was on the phone with someone [in Zalingei, Central Darfur], they told me, 'there's lots of death'."
#SudanUprising
#IAmTheSudanRevolution
#Sudan
: The popular uprising continues to grow in strength, depth, and resolve. One of the most remarkable events in the past decade of world history—and it will succeed, with or without int’l assistance. But many will recall who helped and who did not in this critical moment.
The
#UAE
seem to be intent on supporting the Rapid Support Forces (
#RSF
) in any and all ways, including drawing
#Chad
into the conflict that is now moving from
#Khartoum
to
#Darfur
. International pressure on UAE leadership to halt such actions should be excruciatingly painful.
#SudanUprising
#SudanMassacre
: Was U.S. Charge d’Affaires
#Koutsis
deliberately giving
#Hemeti
the “green light” for the massacre that is ongoing today? He was advised against this visit by some in the USG, but chose to go nonetheless. There is now blood on his hands in any event
#Sudan
: Sooner or later it will become clear to the world that a turning point has been reached in Sudan...and there is no going back. The al-Bashir regime is simply no longer tenable. The international community needs to accept and respond to this fact.
#SudanUprising
A grand protesting day has been called for, earmarking tomorrow 31st as a day where all
#Sudan
's cities & villages are invited to take to the streets. The slogans used for tomorrow's poster are quite poignant, their gist a message to
#Bashir
that he will fall.
#SudanUprising
#Sudan
: Sometimes it is individual determination that best reveals the determination of a people... I find this one of the most impressive images I have seen from the past five weeks...
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
The people of
#Sudan
could not be speaking more clearly, and yet the international community refuses to listen with either comprehension or compassion. Urging "restraint" on peaceful demonstrators as they face "shoot to kill" orders is obscene expediency by UN & AU
#SudanProtests
#Sudan
: Who is U.S. Republican Cong. Gus
#Bilirakis
& what does he represent? And why was he chosen to lead American delegation to Khartoum? U.S. politicians receive many “scores”—usually from 0% (worst) to 100% (best)—from human rights groups, civil rights groups, & many others:
#SudanUprising
#SudanMassacre
Numbers can never do justice to the cruelty of lives lost to brutal, murderous tyranny---we need these faces, the world needs to see these faces...
#Sudan
🇸🇩: these are the faces of the protesters who were killed today by the regime.
Young Sudanese who had their whole lives ahead of them, gunned down in the streets by the militants of the
#RSF
.
#مجزره_القياده_العامه
#SudanUprising
: Three important documents from Forces of the Declaration of Freedom & Change, and Sudanese Professionals Association, incl. “Proposal of governance structures” & “The Situation Regarding the Dialogue w/ the Transitional Military Council”:
#Sudan
Troika countries (+Canada) offer what is an ultimately inconsequential rebuke of al-Bashir regime, demanding this same regime investigate the very crimes--including war crimes--that it has committed, indeed orchestrated over the past three weeks...feckless
#SudanUprising
Thank you for your kind words, Tanzeel Omer... For twenty years now I have sought to serve in the cause of a just peace for all of
#Sudan
--and freedom for its people. It is an honor to serve, and I stand with you in solidarity... Salaam, Eric
#SudanUprising
The Rapid Support Forces (
#RSF
), commanded by Sovereign Council deputy leader Hamdan Daglo (“
#Hemeti
”) must be disbanded. It has no role in the security of civilians in
#Sudan
. Hemeti must be removed entirely—from the present junta & any future civilian govt. He is a génocidaire.
"
#Sudan
is Exploding in Protests: Continuing Updates," December 26, 2018 (11:00 EST), Eric Reeves | [First posted December 20, 2018, 10:45 EST; updated as events warrant. Previous updates at | ]
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
WARNINGS COULD NOT BE CLEARER
“World Health Organization:
#Sudan
hunger levels ‘highest ever recorded’”;
“imminent
#famine
” in Darfur”;
“suspension of many World Food Programme services in
#Darfur
”
“at least 37% of the population is grappling with severe levels of food
#Sudan
: A remarkable milestone! 50 days of non-violent protests and demonstrations in the face of brutally violent repression and torture. It is clearer than ever that the al-Bashir regime is simply no longer tenable.
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
Useful update/overview from The Guardian (UK); highlights figure of sixty (60) reported dead at hands of security forces; points to use of "virtual private networks" (VPN) in providing news/photos in partial circumventing of regime's electronic censorship
#Sudan
#SudanProtests
#Egypt
is again enabling Sudan’s generals & should be held accountable. In Sept. the U.S. released $170 million in military assistance to Sisi. All remaining funds ($130 million)/all future funds should be permanently suspended so long as Egypt enables the military coup in
#Sudan
How can the world look away as young lives in
#Sudan
--the future of the country--are relentlessly destroyed by a regime dominated by cruel old men who resort to violent repression from force of habit, ruthlessly preserving their monopoly on national wealth & power?
#SudanProtests
#Sudan
: A remarkable act of integrity and honesty, qualities that are in short supply in the nominally “civilian” interim government. More of those in prominent positions need to speak truth to power, especially the military/militia powers that control the Sovereign Council.
So what are Blinken, the U.S., and the rest of the international community to ensure this "restoration" of PM Hamdok occurs? This is the fundamental question and no answers are being given...
🔴 وزير الخارجية الامريكي أنطوني بلينكن في نيروبي: "سأقول مرة أخرى عن رئيس الوزراء [عبد الله] حمدوك - هو مصدر للشرعية ومن الأهمية بمكان أن تستعيد عملية الانتقال الشرعية التي كانت تتمتع بها قبل خروج العملية التي كان يقودها المدنيون عن مسارها"
#SudanUprising
: Anyone who thinks that the response of the people of Sudan would be less than w full defiance of the “al-Bashir replacement” simply hasn’t been watching these courageous people over the past four months of an extraordinary democratic uprising.
Pupils of Khashm Algirba,the late Ahmed Alkhair’s home town, chant in a heart breaking scene:
“We’re all Ahmed”
These children woke up one day to find their teacher tortured to death by the regime’s security forces. Read more👉🏼 …
The Sudanese National Anthem sung live and echoed by the entire massive sit-in in front of the Army’s HQs on 18th April
An immediate transfer of power to a civilian government is inevitable apparently with such mounting pressure on the transitional military council
#SudanUprisung
#SudanUprising
: What could be more disgusting, more morally reprehensible that making money off the brutal claim to power by the
#TMC
? And yet in service to the TMC, and
#Hemeti
in particular, a
#Canadian
company has made this despicable deal with the devil. Incomprehensible...
#Sudan
: Portraits of courage and determination, hallmarks of the uprising... The international community must not remain content with unctuous declarations; consequences must be spelled out for the al-Bashir regime is it continues its brutal ways
#SudanProtests
#SudanUprising
AMani Jalal El-Din, 21 years. Culture Studies student. Lost her right eye while protesting against the regime of Omar al-Bashir. “Maybe I lost my eye but I see things in life differently now. I couldn’t see this perspective before “freedom and hope” [the protests].”
#Sudan
Why is
#Sudan
’s Foreign Minister not in charge of forging relationship with new
#Chad
-ian regime? And what could be more absurd than
#g
énocidaire
#Hemeti
representing himself as champion of democracy? (Btw, I lay suspect Hemeti/intel services of recent hack of my Twitter account)
RSF militiamen just like ISIS enjoy finding sadistic ways to torture and kill their victims. In this pic taken from a video posted by the militiamen they are suffocating a civilian by rapping him in plastic film.
#Sudan
#EyesOnSudan
#SudanUprising
: A remarkable, extraordinarily powerful short video clip...should be required viewing for any who doubt the ultimate victory of the uprising...these women are unshakeable in their commitment
"There is no amount of beating or detention that could make us stop."
These women and many more like them, are leading the huge protests against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir.
#SudanProtests
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#SudanUprising
1/2
People from different neighborhoods in Sudan resumed taking to the streets in protest to the escalation on the part of the MCC since yesterday in response to the Revolutionary Escalation Schedule announced by the FDFC on SPA Facebook page on 16th June.
#SudanUprising
#SudanUprising
: sector by sector, a general strike in Sudan is taking place. The TMC can't stop this, even as the economic pressure will become excruciating. The decision by the Council not to accept civilian executive power will become more and more difficult to maintain.
Here is first international reporting on today's demonstrations in
#Sudan
; police have been as brutal as al-Bashir urged them to be. Some wounded/killed; many fleeing heavy use of tear gas. The ruthless thinking of the al-Bashir regime is unchanged.
#SudanProtests
#SudanUprising
#SudanUprising
: An interview from this morning in which I discuss the AU suspension of Sudan from the Union and the consequences of looking away from genocide in Darfur for the past decade:
#SudanUprising
#StateOfEmergency
A powerful visual demonstration of the courage and determination of Sudanese civilians demanding peace, freedom, and justice. The uprising has passed the point of no return; the people will not be defeated. We must remember the martyrs...
#SudanUprising
#UNAMID
#Darfur
For those who think our voices aren't heard, or that advocacy by human rights groups doesn't make a difference, this story strongly suggests otherwise...this would have been unthinkable six months ago...
The joint African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), is suspending the handover of any more camps for displaced civilians to the Sudanese military, against a backdrop of worsening violence and insecurity across the country.
#SudanUprising
#SudanUprising
: With extraordinary courage, the uprising continues... Int'l support--including warning the
#TMC
about renewed violence--are urgently necessary as the uprising re-constitutes itself.
#Hemeti
and his
#RSF
must be warned explicitly and directly.
Concerning the new type of canister being fired against demonstrators: below one plausible account of what it is. This would make clear that special operations units are now deployed on the ground at various locations in
#Sudan
. The warning to protesters should be taken seriously
Al-Bashir, there is no place for you to hide from the consequences of your tyranny, your brutal savagery, your greed, your destruction of so much of
#Sudan
. The people of Sudan have had enough of you and your ruthless cronies
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
#SudanUprising
: This action gives us a sense of just how potent strikes and civil disobedience can be. Forcing pilots to fly planes is one thing; forcing a large, dispersed contingent of workers in a location relatively remote from Khartoum to work is a much more difficult task:
A serious question for officials of the
#Biden
admin with responsibility for
#Sudan
policies: Why is there no clear, forceful pressure on
#UAE
to halt its growing support for
#RSF
, thus prolonging/spreading violence in Sudan? That support is the most vicious form of self-interest
#SudanUprising
#June30
Extraordinarily comprehensive coverage of the country-wide uprising from Radio
#Dabanga
, despite Internet and telephone blockages. The stage is fully set for the demonstrations of June 30, four days from now. The people of Sudan will be heard:
#SudanUprising
: Danger grows as al-Bashir becomes more convinced that he is losing the support of the Army and becomes desperate (that desperation is the reason for this day's earlier incursion by RSF (or NISS force) to confront Army). A cornered tyrant is a dangerous tyrant...
#SudanUprising
We may expect to see far more brutality as the al-Bashir regime uses the
#StateOfEmergency
to unleash all manner of violence and cruelty. The international community must demand an end to this brutality--and impose severe consequences if it is not stopped.
#Sudan
I’ve tried hard to focus my Twitter posts on events in Sudan, with only occasional excursions to other subjects. But I simply cannot fail to speak out about last week’s horrific actions by fascistic, racist, ignorant, and violent insurrectionists in the U.S. Capitol. One victim:
#Sudan
: This the predictable response of the Sudanese people to al-Bashir's self-serving claim of a "state of emergency." The people will not be intimidated, and they have made their statement to this effect tonight.
#SudanUprising
Demonstration expands in Sudan shortly after Bashir declares one-year state of emergency, dissolves government
#SupportSudan
#Sudan_Uprising
#تسقط_بس #مدن__السودان_تنتفض #إعلان_حالة_الطوارئ
What would a collapsed state of Sudan look like? There are no words adequate to describe how catastrophic this would be for the people who want no part of present violence. But others will be looking in…opportunistically.
From a reliable Sudanese source:
#SudanUprising
#SudanMassacre
An appropriately harsh assessment of
#Hemeti
from France24 News. There needs to be more such frank assessment of a génocidaire who is already—or posed to become—the most powerful man in Sudan:
#SudanUprising
International solidarity with the people of
#Sudan
in their struggle for peace, freedom, & justice is critical--esp. in pressuring countries in Europe & the Americas (as well as Japan, India, & Australia). Int'l actors such as the UN, AU should be pressured as well
In solidarity with
#SudanUprising
, several manifestations will be held tomorrow the 15th of February around the world in three continents: Australia, Europe and North America.
The
#UN
Security Council, already having authorized removal of
#UNAMID
forces from this part of
#Darfur
, is preparing to authorize full removal of UNAMID forces form all of Darfur. UNAMID bases are being converted to
#RSF
bases, from which more such attacks can be launched:
#Sudan
: Lawyers, journalists, medical professionals, students--all are targets of the al-Bashir security forces because they are the backbone and life-blood of the uprising. Their courage should be celebrated as Sudan climbs toward freedom & justice.
#SudanUprising
#SudanProtests
Hamdan Dagalo (“
#Hemeti
”) is at once deputy head of the ruling Sovereign Council and head of the Rapid Support Forces (
#RSF
), which for years have committed the most serious atrocity crimes in
#Darfur
. Security can never come to the region so long as Hemeti serves in both roles.
In light of today’s deaths & injuries at the hands of security forces—and outrageous violations of int’l humanitarian law by junta forces attacking medical personnel & hospitals—it’s clear there are no constraints on
#Burhan
/
#Hemeti
as they desperately cling to power.
#SudanCoup
#SudanUprising
: It becomes increasingly difficult to believe that any governance that must accommodate the RSF and its leader
#Hemeti
can survive. Hemeti has too much at stake in military governance, and the RSF are simply the "new janjaweed"--and every bit as ruthless...
RSF & Janjaweed forces seen at checkpoint in
#Khartoum
earlier today here: . h/t to
@john_marquee
. Footage here: . Note: Russian-made Dragunov sniper rifles in images. Phone was hit with stick. #تسقط_تالت #اعتصام_القيادة_العامة
The BBC New Africa is reporting that the transitional government in Sudan will hand over former president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court in The Hague...an historic moment in accountability if it comes to pass.
This is outrageous diplomatic recognition by
#Guterres
: he should lead the way in isolating
#TMC
diplomatically, and certainly have nothing to do with anyone from Sudan until there is a transition to civilian governance. Guterres has proved weak and spineless on
#Sudan
&
#Darfur
:
So tomorrow
@AntonioGuterres
has a grip and grin with Sudan's "new" Ambassador to the UN, who was Omar al Bashir's Ambassador to London. Then again, Guterres did a photo op with Bashir weeks before his fall. Guterres took a golden statue from
#Cameroon
's Paul Biya