Sudanese activists embark on new bid to stage popular uprising, 21 March
March 20, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese activists have been calling for a nationwide protest on Monday, March 21, against the 22-year rule of President Al-Bashir’s government, in a fresh bid to emulate their counterparts in neighboring Libya and Egypt.
There have also been a few other attempts to stage protests since 30 January but the authorities managed to contain them with the use of force, drawing condemnation from several international organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW) which slammed the government for its “violent responses” to peaceful demonstrators.
On March 8, as the World celebrated Women’s International Day, Sudanese police arrested and beat dozens of female activists protesting against right abuses and the alleged rape of a female activist by three NISS agents on 13 February.
“Because I am a free Sudanese, I will go out and say NO” an online poster by a group called Change Now Movement circulated on many websites and Facebook-based pages.
Another poster is urging people to “be the change and take to the streets on 21 March to say enough to 21 years of deceit, theft, destruction, corruption, separation and rape.”
Worsening economic conditions compounded with a sense of loss following the secession of the oil-producing South Sudan in a referendum in January have fuelled calls for a popular uprising in north Sudan to be modeled on the wave of revolts which recently toppled deeply entrenched governments in Tunisia and Egypt.
The current Sudanese government of President Al-Bashir has ruled the country since it seized power in a military coup in 1989, ushering in an era of repressive reactions to dissent amid a tightly controlled domestic media.
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sid balad
Sudanese activists embark on new bid to stage popular uprising, 21 March
Though i think the NCP should go soon, i dont think this is the time we need an uprising in sudan. They might have done alot of wrong things but i think they are our best hope of going through smoothly with the completion of the CPA and the successful separation with south sudan plus darfur. And in a way they seemed to have promised the people of sudan that they will do good quickly after that is all over. That is definitely what every sudanese expects to see. And if that is not the case then i would be 100% all for an uprising.
Because for once in a long time the Egyptians are starting to get it right. Just look at their referendum on the Constitution change. Its a serious change we need seriously, and to keep improving from that.
But meanwhile the dust needs to settle, and hopefully for both sudan and south sudan.
original sudanese
Sudanese activists embark on new bid to stage popular uprising, 21 March
Why they have white man face on the flag??? Africans and Arabs always see the white man as model? What a shame
VETERAN-2000
Sudanese activists embark on new bid to stage popular uprising, 21 March
Harry,
Arabs of Sudan are too coward compare to original Arabs who knows the rights of a human being like the ones in Egyt, Tunisa, and Libya.
For me, NCP government is too weak tobe topple just a matter of few days not longer than the one in Libya. Bashir and his NCP party has never been realistic and honest to people of the Sudan.
Some arabs communities were mistreated by Bashir regime and they kept quite without realizing that they are push to inhuman conditions indirectly by NCP. We in the South called for NEW SUDAN, but now we forwarded the case to Arabs themselves to see what new change can make.
Cowards, you will never understand the importance of the Sudan if you keep Bashir in power for all these long. I don’t encourage Bashir to be hang on throat by ICC, but must brought down from power by Sudanese masses and Hang in Sudan because he kills our people not ICC people.
Uprising of Sudanese massese oyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Dignity of other arabs oyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee