Reuters: Sudan Security Forces Kill At Least 50 Protesters: Rights Groups

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Sudan security forces kill at least 50 protesters: rights groups

 

Sudanese security forces have killed at least 50 protesters with shots to the head or chest, two rights groups said on Friday, challenging the authorities' narrative of the worst unrest in Sudan's central regions for years.

 

Spurred on by the lifting of fuel subsidies on Monday, thousands of people have taken to the streets in Khartoum and central Sudan to protest against corruption and demand veteran President Omar Hassan Bashir step down.

 

Sudan's police, which has cracked down on the protests, said late on Thursday that battles with protesters had killed 29 people, among them police officers. Sudanese opposition activists have put the death toll at over 100.

 

London-based Amnesty International and the New York-based African Center for Justice and Peace Studies said at least 50 people had been killed by gun shots to the chest or head, citing witnesses, relatives, doctors and journalists.

 

Among the dead was a 14-year-old boy, while most other victims seemed to be between 19 and 26 years old, the groups said in a statement. Hundreds had been detained, it said.

 

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Sigh.  Bashir is such a scumbag.

[Special K]

Horrible, but not surprising.  That president is a horrible human being.

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Sudan arrests 700 people in week of deadly anti-government unrest

 

Seven hundred people have been arrested during a week of the worst unrest in central Sudan in years, the government said on Monday, as protests continued against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

 

One week on from the start of demonstrations against subsidy cuts, police once again used teargas on protesters, this time women students at the Ahfad university in Khartoum's twin-city of Omdurman who chanted "We don't want Bashir", witnesses said.

 

At a news conference called by the government to put its side of the week's events, Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamad said 34 people had died, far fewer than the up-to-150 estimated by Sudanese human rights activists and some diplomats.

 

Hamad said police had not used live ammunition against protesters who, he said, had attacked more than 40 petrol stations, 13 buses and several government buildings.

 

 

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7 Things You Need to Know About #SudanRevolts

 

In the last week, thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets to call for a fundamental change in the way their country is governed. Many organized themselves around the #SudanRevolts and #Abena (We Refuse) hashtags on Twitter, and have used social media to share graphic evidence of the state security forces’ brutal crackdown on peaceful and unarmed demonstrators. Here’s what you need to know: