"Sudan’s armed forces understand the reasons for the demonstrations and is not against the demands and aspirations of the citizens, but it will not allow the country to fall into chaos," Ibnouf said at a meeting of the top brass, according to the official SUNA news agency.
UN appeals to Sudan to avoid violence
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday appealed to all sides in Sudan to avoid violence.
Guterres urged the government 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.
to "create a conducive environment for a solution to the current situation and to promote an inclusive dialogue."
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Sudan’s Interior Minister Bushara Juma said seven protesters died on Saturday when forces tried to disperse them, 15 were maimed and 2,496 placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
during the demonstration.
The UN chief "appeals to all actors to exercise utmost restraint and avoid violence," said a UN statement.
Guterres called for the release of the detained protesters and for the full respect of human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
including the freedom of assembly and freedom of expression.
Sudan has been rocked by more than three months of protests that began with demonstrations against the hike in bread prices and have since morphed into opposition against Bashir.