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after police forcibly dispersed a rally demanding the release of other opponents of the regime held for several weeks, their leader said on Sunday.
"We dispersed but after I left the place... three young men were enjugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
," Farouk Abu Issa, head of the opposition alliance, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said they had rallied on Saturday in support of six members of opposition parties detained for their connection with a conference in Kampala, Uganda, which led to a charter for toppling the 23-year regime of President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to
ArabizeDarfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
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"There were hundreds of women and men and children. The families of some of the detainees were there," Issa told AFP.
He said they gathered in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman at the family home of Sudan's first prime minister, Sayyid Isma'il al-Azhari.
"After we finished we went out of the house... When we were standing there raising banners the police came and used tear gas, very excessively," said Issa, who represents more than 20 opposition parties.
His alliance, along with community activists, agreed in January to the New Dawn charter with gunnies from Sudan's Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile areas.
The pact calls for regime change using both armed and peaceful means.