Sudan: The Generals can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea

The Sovereign Council and the Army Commanders who controls it. Are using vicious force and violence to stagnate the will of the people. The authorities are using brutal means to address the marches. Thousands of people are wounded and countless of people murdered since the second coup of 26th October 2021.

The ones in-charge can hold on too power and cling-on to it. However, they cannot assault every civilian, arrest all activists or coordinators. The Forces of Freedom and Change, the Resistance Councils and their allies are not getting any weaker. The marches, the structures and the charter sets all in motion.

The Transitional Sovereign Council isn’t on the merits of the public, but they are there on the graces of loyalty amongst the soldiers. It is the arms, the tear-gas and the guns that keeps them a-float. It isn’t the popularity or the justified representation of people in Sudan.

No, these are violent leaders who repress, suppress and oppress people on a regular basis. While they are not taking into account the masses or their will. That is very evident. Since, the first coup d’etat after Omar Al-Bashir. The Transitional Military Council (TMC) thought they could hijack the revolution. Even as they killed, massacred and slaughtered civilians in their name.

Now, the same gentlemen in the mighty council continues to crack skulls, harm civilians and target the ones who is resisting them. That is very clear by now. The stories, the tales of rape and other violent attacks on hospitals. Only shows what the authorities under guidance of these military commanders are willing to do.

I cannot see any sort of relief or escape from it. The violence of the state, the brutality and the pain it serves it citizen is endless. There is no bound and people are arrested just for their political belief or the power of resistance. The state is willing to make them criminals for fighting for a just cause. A cause of which, the people elects a civilian government and have good governance.

That is what the army commanders works against. They are thriving, having all power to themselves and they can muster the army, if in need or the Rapid Support Force (RSF) to knock some sense into the public. Therefore, it is hard to see any changes or read of movement, which serves the interests of the people.

No, the Sovereign Council acts like the marches, demonstrations or the resistance councils even matters. No, it acts above it and thinks it can quell it. However, the Sovereign Council and it’s warlords cannot stop an idea. They can get rid of a few leaders and activists, but the idea that they have envisioned. Is bound to happen eventually. Either by the hands of righteous men or by the mercy of the lord.

Since, the TMC or the Sovereign Council will not last forever. The transitional powers will tear off and the bickering inside will suddenly transpire too. As the greed and the merciless grab of power wears off. The army commanders cannot shield themselves from it. The public and their cause is justified. They are reigning on borrowed time… and sooner or later… their time is over. Peace.

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – Urgent (14.03.2022)

Processions of millions of detainees in the three cities of Khartoum state are subjected to excessive repression with live bullets, birdshot and tear gas, in addition to sound and rubber bombs.

In the meantime, state hospitals are receiving dozens of injuries with live bullets and shotguns in the head and chest, some of them are critical and their condition may require hypnosis in intensive care rooms or urgent surgical intervention.

The coup forces of all kinds do not hesitate to export violence to our people in this deadly way in order to protect tyrants whose first concern is to steal the people’s wealth and impose on them a state of restricting freedoms and pensions.

We warn the coup authority against continuing this hostile approach against the masses of our people, and we promise that we will unite with our partners in the forces of the revolution to bring down this coup by all means of peaceful and tested resistance.

March 14 2022

Sudan: Professional Pharmacists Association – Sudan – Press statement about Continuous Violations in West Darfur (12.03.2022)

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – Field Report – On the Marches of March 12, 2022 (13.03.2022)

The total number of injuries was (18) cases, as follows:

– (1) A case of being run over by a vehicle belonging to the regular forces

– (1) A case of rubber bullet injury

– (1) A case of a stun grenade hit

– (1) Case of a stun grenade hit

– (2) A case of head injury with a hard object

– (5) Cases of sporadic injuries to the body from tear gas canisters

– (6) Sporadic cases of superficial injury to the body as a result of stone throwing and stampede

– (1) A case of asphyxiation by tear gas

Your committee will provide you with every update it receives in continuous field reports to expose the council military coup.

– We note the following:

* There are injuries in the field that were treated by field aid teams and are not included in the list.

The details of the aforementioned injured until the moment of the issuance of this report are confined to us to ensure their rights, and not sharing them is at the core of the professional obligation to respect their privacy.

Glory and eternity to our brave martyrs.

Urgent recovery to our wounded heroes..

And victory for our mighty people over the forces of labor and livelihood..

March 13, 2022

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Statement on the crimes of the coup d’état against the peaceful marches of March 10 and civilians in Mount Mon (11.03.2022)

Our brave people;

The victorious processions of March 10, 2022, were met with brutality and violence, as the forces of the coup d’état proceeded to harness their live ammunition and purchased tear gas canisters.

From the pockets of taxpayers and from the levies that are imposed on our rebellious people who are suffering very complicated economic conditions, two martyrs rose to prayer for them with prayers for mercy and forgiveness, and dozens of revolutionaries and free revolutionaries were injured, we ask God for their speedy recovery.

The Jebel Moon region in West Darfur has also witnessed brutal attacks on unarmed citizens that began since last Sunday and is still continuing, which, according to a statement issued by the West Darfur State Doctors Committee, claimed dozens of deaths and injuries, in a continuation of the violent incidents that the region witnessed since November of the year last.

The authority in Khartoum did not move towards what is happening there.

Our great people;

We in the Executive Office of the Forces of Freedom and Change appreciate the astonishing courage of our people in resisting the arrogance of the brutal coup authority, and we see that the justifications for defeating the putschists, opportunists and remnants of the former regime have become full-fledged, and that the overthrow of their worn-out authority and the crushing victory of aspirations, our honourable people are looming on the horizon, and despite our appreciation for the efforts of the African Union and the United Nations envoy to find solutions to get the Sudanese scene out of the state of acute political tension created by the coup of the twenty-fifth of October 2022 AD, the reality of the situation confirms that the coup authority does not care about calls to create the climate, which puts a question mark about the fate of these efforts and initiatives, and we affirm that we are on the path to achieving the goals and noble aspirations of our people in defeating totalitarianism, overthrowing the October 25 coup, and completing the process of civil democratic transformation under a purely civil authority.

Long live our people free and victorious

Executive Office – Forces of Freedom and Change

March 11, 2022 AD

Sudan: Sudan Central Doctors Committee – Field Report about the injuries of the procession 7 March 2022 (07.03.2022)

More than 10 cases were counted today, including (3) live bullet wounds, one of them (unstable injury in intensive care), head injury with a tear gas canister, and (3) sound bomb injuries.

The total number of injuries reached (11) cases, as follows:

– (3) Live bullet injuries (one of them is unstable in intensive care)

– ( 1) A case of rubber bullet injury

– ( 1) Head injury from a tear gas canister

– ( 1) A case of head injury with a hard object

– (3) Cases of stun grenades

– ( 1) The case of a stun grenade hit

– ( 1) A case of asphyxiation by tear gas

the capital, Khartoum —

| Nautical processions and their localities:

‣‣ Total injuries (7) cases, as follows:

– (2) A case of a live bullet wound (one of them is unstable in the intensive care unit)

– ( 1) A case of rubber bullet injury

– (2) A case of stun grenades

– ( 1) Case of a stun grenade hit

– ( 1) A case of asphyxiation by tear gas

| Processions of Khartoum and its localities:

‣‣ (1) A case of live bullet injury (under observation and may require surgical intervention)

| Processions of Omdurman and its localities:

‣‣ Total injuries (3) cases, as follows:

– ( 1) A case of a stun grenade

– ( 1) A case of a tear gas canister hit in the head

– ( 1) A case of head injury with a hard object

Your committee will provide you with every update it receives in continuous field reports to expose the coup military council.

– We note the following:

* There are injuries in the field that were treated by ambulance teams field and is not included in the limitation.

The details of the aforementioned injured until the moment of the issuance of this report are confined to us to ensure their rights, and not sharing them is at the core of the professional obligation to respect their privacy.

Glory and eternity to our brave martyrs.

Urgent recovery to our wounded heroes..

And victory for our mighty people over the forces of labor and livelihood..

07 March 2022

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) – Executive Office – Urgent statement (28.02.2022)

The Sudanese revolution demonstrated once again its ability to defeat the repressive coup machine, by successfully overcoming the excessive repression in Khartoum and reaching the Republican Palace today, February 28, 2020.

The coup forces brutally confronted the dispersal of the gathering of revolutionaries in front of the palace and at the same time exerted their utmost repression in both Bahri and Omdurman against the peaceful revolutionaries.. He rose as a result of the bloody repression as a martyr in Omdurman, in addition to dozens of wounded.

There is no retreat from the path of peaceful struggle to defeat the coup and restore the path of civil democratic transformation.. The leaders of the coup must submit to the will of this people.

Whatever the case, the united will of the people will triumph.

Media Committee of the Forces of Freedom and Change

February 28, 2022

Sudan: Statement on the Release of UNITAMS Summary Report on its Consultations for a Political Process for Sudan (28.02.2022)

The military coup of 25 October 2021 constituted a significant setback in realizing the goals to be achieved during the transitional period in Sudan.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, February 28, 2022 – In 2019, the victory of the Sudanese revolution and its slogans of freedom, peace and justice provided a unique and inspiring example for the world over. It was the unprecedented courage of the Sudanese youth, women and men in their continuous struggle to liberate from dictatorship, which opened the door to a new future in Sudan, in which the problems of the past would be addressed, and the Sudanese state would be rebuilt on the foundations of civility and democracy that its people aspire to. The United Nations was committed from the first moment to go hand in hand with the people of Sudan on this journey, and to provide all possible support and assistance in the journey of democratization, reform and reconstruction that the Sudanese people aspire to in the transitional period that followed the victory of the revolution.

Accordingly, on 3 June 2020, and in response to the direct request of the civilian-led transitional Government of Sudan, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 2524 (2020), established the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), a special political mission to provide support to Sudan during its political transition to democratic rule.

The military coup of 25 October 2021 constituted a significant setback in realizing the goals to be achieved during the transitional period in Sudan.  However, we remain hopeful that the Sudanese people will be able to restore the path of transition towards civil and democratic transformation, benefiting from the experiences of the past and focusing on the promises of the future.

On 8 January 2022, following the resignation of Prime Minister Hamdok after various unsuccessful domestic initiatives to restore the constitutional order, UNITAMS launched a political process that started with initial consultations with a wide range of Sudanese stakeholders to address the current political impasse and develop a path towards democracy and peace. The report that we present today represents a summary of the opinions and areas of convergence and divergence heard by the mission during 110 consultation meetings with over 800 participants – one third of them women – from various parts of Sudan, as well as those contained in over 80 written submissions. This report will help in formulating and designing the next stage of the process in order to break the current political impasse. Such an outcome can only be Sudanese-made and Sudanese-owned in order to succeed.

Although this report may disappoint those who expected a solution from the UN, the objective of this process remains to support a Sudanese solution towards emerging from the current political crisis towards realizing the goals of their revolution. However, a prominent outcome of the report is that despite variances in opinions, there were several areas of consensus. Most consultees identified similar points of concern emerging from the recent past. We identified areas of consensus and divergences between the different interlocutors we have consulted. These reflect the views of Sudanese participants. The UN has no position on these views and opinions, but they will assist through the next stages of the political process.

The United Nations remains committed to supporting a civilian-led democratic government as the ultimate objective of the transitional period in Sudan, as per its mandate. We are likewise guided by the principles of the Organization, including respect for human rights and the centrality of women and youth participation in a political process.

In “Our Common Agenda” Report of September 2021, Secretary-General António Guterres affirmed the unequivocal commitment of the United Nations “to promote respect for democracy and human rights, and to enhance democratic governance and the rule of law by strengthening transparent and accountable governance and independent judicial institutions.” This puts the aspirations that the Sudanese people wish to achieve at the heart of the future global agenda. I assure the Sudanese that they will not walk alone. We will be working side-by-side with our international and regional partners – particularly the African Union and IGAD – in the coming phase, to push the political process forward with the participation of all Sudanese actors in order to restore the path of civil and democratic transformation in Sudan. Satisfying the aspirations of Sudan’s people and realizing the slogans of their 2019 revolution are our ultimate objectives.

To view the summary paper of the consultations on a political process for Sudan, please visit the link

Sudan: Resistance Committees in Khartoum State – Charter for the establishment of the People’s Authority (January 2022)

Sudan: Hemeti seeks a stronger Russian bilateral support for the RSF

Hemetti-led Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have already established strong cooperation with Wagner a private paramilitary force close to the Kremlin. The RSF leader, however, ambitions to get more Russian weapons for his militiamen. Moscow seeks to consolidate relations with the Sudanese military rulers and to convince them to implement a 25-year agreement to establish a logistical and technical support base on the Red Sea for the Russian Navy. Last December, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Head of the Sovereign Council said the agreement, signed with the former regime, was still under review. But, al-Burhan expressed hope that its implementation would consolidate bilateral relations between the two countries” (Sudan Tribune – ‘Sudan’s Hemetti supports Russian recognition of separatist Ukrainian regions’ 24.02.2022).

Just as the warfare is happening in Europe. The Deputy Head of the Transitional Sovereign Council General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti or Hemetti visited Russia on the 23rd February as he also did support Russian actions towards Ukraine in the separatist regions. This shows that he treasures the Russian friendship and alliance. As they are trading partners and supplying arms to the Rapid Support Force in Sudan.

That the Sudanese leaders does this now. Shows their friendship and where they are seeking aid. As they know these are preoccupied with conflict elsewhere. Since they can get the needed arms support and aid, which differs any embargo or freezing of accounts. Alas, it is a way of sophisticated getting in and around other Western responses to usage of force against civilians and protesters against the military government in Sudan.

Hemeti is also strengthening his own power and ability. As the RSF will become stronger and have better arms in the near future. While they are ensure trading of illicit minerals and other exports, which secures the Transitional Sovereign Council funds. This is both helping Russia in the possible hits of sanctions from the West. As it has a trading partner and ability to export certain goods from Sudan. Therefore, what is being done here is a practical support of the war-effort in Europe by Sudanese government. That’s a decision, which both parties have done in this current time.

War-Lords prefers to talk and make agreements with other war-lords. The proof of that is with Hemeti and Putin. These two are alike, but from different continents. What Putin is doing to Ukraine. Hemeti has done his efforts within Sudan for years and especially Darfur. While trading arms to Tchad as well. Therefore, this isn’t new, but shows what sort of character Hemeti is.

This here shows the crude actions of both parties and why we cannot expect men like Hemeti will be helpful to a transition to a civilian government. As his in this to strengthen his own capabilities and forces.

So, Hemeti didn’t travel to Russia out of charity, but out of a beneficial interests of both parties. To trade and get arms. That gives him more power in Sudan. Peace.