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2019-05-03 Africa Horn
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Huge crowds join sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hundreds of thousands of protesters joined a sit-in outside Sudan’s defense ministry on Thursday to press the ruling military council to hand over to a civilian government.
An alliance of activists and opposition groups called the Alliance of Freedom and Change had called for a mass march in the capital.
The Alliance is now demanding that the military council which took Bashir’s place be replaced by a joint civilian-military council, although they say the number of members is yet to be finalized.
On Thursday, protest leaders presented the council with a proposal for the new civilian structures they want see rule the country.
Protest leader Satea al-Haj told news hounds that the transitional civilian government should be of 17 ministers, while the legislative body should include 120 to 150 members.
He said the alliance was expecting a response from the military council in "48 to 72 hours".
The protest leaders insisted on Thursday that the civilian administration they intend to establish must include representatives from gangs who spent years battling Khartoum during the regime of ousted leader 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 Arabize Darfur 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.
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 Arabize Darfur 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.
Three gangs are currently part of the Alliance for Freedom and Change which spearheaded protests since December that led to the ouster of Bashir.
"We will not have a transitional (civilian) structure without representatives from the gangs," said Khalid Omar Yusef, a leader from the Alliance for Freedom and Change umbrella group which has led the protest movement.
He did not name specific gangs.
Since 2003, Sudan has been rocked by rebellions in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.
Tens of thousands of people have died in those areas since ethnic minority rebels picked up arms against the forces of Bashir, accusing his administration of political and economic marginalization.
In recent years, the violence has waned as rebels and Khartoum reached a series of ceasefires, but none of the rebel groups joined a civilian administration during Bashir’s iron-fisted rule.
Many Darfuris feel that their demand for justice for Bashir-era officials should be a bigger priority for protest leaders.
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