Labournet Germany berichtet über die erneuten, überwiegend nächtlichen Proteste sowie Sit-ins in mehreren großen Unternehmen.
Neue, nach wie vor und erneut massenhafte Proteste in zahlreichen Orten im Sudan – das war faktisch die Antwort breiter Teile der demokratischen Bewegung auf den sogenannten Appell des Militärrats an die zivile Opposition, ohne Vorbedingungen in neue Verhandlungen einzutreten. Eine Aufforderung, die allgemein als weitere Drohung aufgefasst wurde, nachdem sie von denselben Leuten kam, die die Verantwortung für das Massaker Anfang Juni tragen. Die neuerlichen Proteste waren gekennzeichnet sowohl von – nächtlichem – Barrikadenbau, als auch von Sit-Ins in verschiedenen Einrichtungen und Unternehmen. Und sie forderten weiterhin die Übergabe der Macht an eine zivile Regierung und kritisierten all jene Kräfte vor allem im Ausland, die weiterhin so tun, als hätte dieser Militärrat irgendeine Art von Legitimität – außer den Waffen, versteht sich. Die Proteste ließen sich auch nicht durch weitere „Bauernopfer“ eindämmen, wie etwa die Absetzung des Generalstaatsanwalts durch den Militärrat. Und dass nicht nur die Militärs und Milizen internationale Unterstützung bekommen, sondern auch die Demokratiebewegung, zeigten Solidaritätsaktionen in London, Tunis und Berlin. […]
„Waves of protestors hit the streets in different cities of Sudan today“ am 20. Juni 2019 beim Twitter-Kanal der Sudanese Translators for Change ist – neben der Meldung über die zahlreichen Proteste – ein kurzes Video von einer großen Demonstration in Port Sudan, wie immer von besonderem Interesse, da die meisten Videoberichte und Fotos zumeist aus der Hauptstadt kommen und aus den Provinzen, wie hier, weitaus weniger.
„Employees from different institutes in different cities in Sudan held sit-ins“ ebenfalls am 20. Juni 2019 bei den Sudanese Translators for Change ist ein Videobericht von der Besetzung einer Bank in der Hauptstadt und eine Sammlung von Meldungen über weitere solche Aktionen – inklusive der Meldung von Festnahmen von Teilnehmern eines solchen Protest-Sit-Ins im Ölministerium des Sudan.
LabourNet Germany | 21.06.2019
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Civilians face increasing fragility under military rule
Justin Lynch
„Life is tentatively returning to Khartoum’s streets after pro-democracy campaigners abandoned a general strike this week, but Sudanese civilians are confronted by a range of challenges, from growing medical needs in the capital to renewed violence in Darfur, Port Sudan, and Kassala.“
What is the situation in the capital?
Although some life is returning to Khartoum’s commercial areas, at night there are still roadblocks set up by civilians to protect themselves from soldiers, particularly the RSF.
Many hospitals were closed and are only now reopening, although most can only offer limited services. Health facilities were deliberately attacked by the RSF during the 3 June violence, witnesses told TNH.
“Schools, hospitals, and health centres have been targeted, looted, and destroyed,” UNICEF’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement. “We have received information that children are being detained, recruited to join the fighting and sexually abused.”
A second UN official, who also asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of speaking to journalists, estimated that in the 72 hours following the RSF crackdown there were likely “thousands of women and girls who have been subjected to forms of violent harassment”.
Women TNH spoke to said they faced significant harassment on the streets of the capital by the RSF – the bulk of whom are drawn from the notorious Janjaweed militia, alleged to have committed numerous war crimes when deployed by al-Bashir in Darfur in the early 2000s.
What’s the situation outside Khartoum?
The western state of Darfur has long been a byword for lawlessness and rights abuses. Since 2003, Khartoum’s scorched-earth campaign against rebels has left between 200,000 and 300,000 people dead and 2.7 million displaced.
Since the fall of al-Bashir, there has been an increase in tensions involving local communities and ethnic militia emboldened by the political situation.The UN-African Union Mission in Darfur, or UNAMID, confirmed on Thursday the killing of 17 people and the torching of more than 100 houses in the village of Deleij in central Darfur earlier this week.
The violence „occurred during heated clashes between nomads and residents apparently angered by the increase in commodity prices at the local market,” UNAMID said.
The opposition-linked Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors had accused the Janjaweed militia of a “systematic massacre” in Deleij. […]
In eastern Sudan there has also been a sharp rise in violence linked to the political crisis in Khartoum. More than 30 people have reportedly been killed in recent days in “tribal and criminal” clashes in Port Sudan. The fighting between the Beni Amir and the Nuba ethnic groups also spread to the cities of Khashm el-Girba and Kassala. […]
What are the food needs?
An estimated 5.7 million people are facing food shortages across the country, according to government figures. It was a sharp depreciation of the local currency, hyperinflation and fuel and food shortages that triggered the protests that finally led to the toppling of al-Bashir.
FEWS NET, which provides early warning of hunger and famine, says poor households will face “crisis” conditions – a struggle to cover their minimum food needs – in most areas of Greater Darfur, North Kordofan, South Kordofan, southern Blue Nile, northern Kassala, and Red Sea states through to September.
Displaced people in areas of South Kordofan controlled by the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North and the Jebel Marra stronghold of the Sudan Liberation Army-Abdul Wahid will face “emergency” levels of hunger, the US-funded group said.