Sudan: East Khartoum Neighborhoods Resistance Committees Coordination – Processions of The Ninth of June (09.06.2022)

May God’s mercy and forgiveness be upon the martyrs of the Sudanese revolution, speedy recovery for the injured, freedom for the detainees inside the dark cells and the safe return of the missing.

In continuation of our steadfast people’s struggles against the coup council and its militias, which do nothing but killing and shedding the blood of the Sudanese people in cold blood, the peaceful processions of the ninth of June took place in various areas of Khartoum State and other neighborhoods in the rest of the states of our beloved homeland. These processions were subjected to the most severe types of excessive repression with live bullets, tear gas and stun grenades directed directly at the bodies of the peaceful revolutionaries.

Our proud people:

In spite of the murderers’ claim that the state of emergency had been lifted, their forces perpetrated these heinous crimes, which resulted in the injury of more than eight peaceful revolutionaries by live ammunition in the city of Khartoum alone. In addition, one of the revolutionaries in the city of Madani sustained a direct hit from a live bullet to the chest, as well as other injuries with conditions ranging from stable to unstable.

Our free people:

We, the East Khartoum Neighborhoods Resistance Committees Coordination, affirm that these violations will not deter us or stop our peaceful struggles; rather, they will strengthen our resolve to bring down and hold accountable these militias that feed on the blood of our comrades in the streets of the revolution.

East Khartoum Neighborhoods Resistance Committees Coordination

June 9, 2022

Sudan: South Khartoum & Al Kalakla Resistance Committees Coordination – Detainees of June 9 March (09.06.2022)

Honorable Revolutionaries:

Since the start of the coup, the brutal coup authority has used the dictionary definition of destructive totalitarian regimes, employing murder and bloody repression and throwing civilians from symbols of the revolutionary forces and field leaders from the resistance committees into the depths of prisons and detention centers, in a pitiful attempt to curtail the movement of the rebellious masses across the country. This totalitarian approach, however, backfired and afflicted the putschists, their political and social incubator, and the remnants of the former regime. The revolutionary consciousness that surrounded the masses of our people during their peaceful and victorious movement from the beginning of the glorious December revolution until today has produced thousands of leaders who are highly skilled in the organizing of peaceful resistance action and mastered of the art of subjugating dictatorial regimes; the streets are boiling like a cauldron under the feet of tyrants every day, despite the overcrowding of prisons and detention centers.

Our heroic steadfast people:

Freedom is a right, not a privilege. During today’s march, more than 25 young men and women of the resistance committees were arrested in front of the People’s Palace. We hold the coup authority fully responsible for the safety of detainees, and we reaffirm our principled rejection of all forms of harassments, arrests, and confiscation of freedoms.

May the whips of our usual peacefulness inflame the backs of tyrants and turn their fragile authority’s dreams of survival into a never-ending nightmare until its complete overthrow and the establishment of a full civil authority that carries the torch of the process of civil democratic transformation and the state of freedom, peace, and justice.

Media Office

June 9, 2022

Sudan: Sudanese Professionals Association (S.P.A) – Statement (09.06.2022)

 

History repeats itself, and here are the settlement plans being hatched again, and the forces that benefit from the survival of the two coups to power in Sudan are seeking to form a lame partnership once again, and in light of these lines, the size of the international and regional scheme is revealed to our glorified people to block the path to the revolution. And that is through the road led by the tripartite mechanism, the masks have fallen and the whisper has become loud, and here we are watching chapters of negotiation that take different directions to impose a new reality whose first goal is to block the path of the revolution and prevent it from reaching its goals and objectives.

Our noble people,

Since the coup of the twenty-fifth of October, our street has not calmed down with its escalating revolutionary movement, and the revolutionaries and revolutionaries have adhered to their principle and their vents and the stage represented in the three nos, no negotiation for an illegal partnership with courage and daring, and this glorious and continuous revolutionary escalation of rejection confused the calculations of the mechanism advocates of compromise and putschists, there is no place for the military in indirect or direct negotiations, and they must be permanently removed from the scene, which is guaranteed by the charters of the forces of the live revolution and its political declarations.

List of defendants who should be tried and not negotiated.

Our steadfast people,

In the Sudanese Professionals Association, we affirm our position rejecting negotiations, whether direct or indirect, and we were informed of this by advocates of international and regional negotiations through the Tripartite Committee, and we will continue in the continuous escalation with our people shoulder to shoulder until the overthrow of the coup authority, and this is the way to establish a state of citizenship as a basis for rights and duties, and to achieve justice and democratic transformation.

June 9, 2022 AD

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office – Statement (10.06.2022)

An important statement about (what happened in the meeting called by the United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) at the invitation of the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Mrs. (Molly V) and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Khartoum (Ali bin Hassan Jaafar) and at the residence of the Saudi ambassador in the suburb of Kafoury, on the evening of Thursday, June 9, 2022, a meeting was held between the delegations of Freedom and Change and the leaders of the military coup authority.

This meeting came after the leadership of Freedom and Change refused to participate in the Rotana meeting, which sought to legitimize the coup and build a controlled incubator on the basis of dividing power away from the issues of the revolution and civil democratic transition.

Explain why we went to the meeting?

The forces of freedom and change adopt three means to defeat the coup:

The mass popular revolution and International and regional solidarity and the political solution that leads to the handover of power to civilians, in this context, it differentiates between a false political solution, similar to what happened at the Rotana Hotel, and a real political solution. Which ends the coup and establishes a full democratic civil authority that achieves the goals of the revolution.

We seek to continue to support two of the most important regional and international actors on the side of the Sudanese people, the democratic forces and the revolutionary forces, and to isolate the coup forces if they want to move forward in subjugating the masses and rejecting the political process.

– Ending the course of the dialogue (Rotana Hotel), which legitimizes the coup and its authority against the wishes of the Sudanese people who reject it and resist its overthrow. It is a dialogue that is hostile to the people and their just causes and the realization of their aspirations to complete the change and the tasks of the glorious December revolution.

We explain what happened in the meeting and what took place in it:

The forces of freedom and change proposed the necessity of ending the coup and handing over power to the people, through a clear and conclusive road map and within the framework of a political process whose parties are the forces of revolution and change on the one hand, and those who carried out the coup on the other hand, in this, the forces of freedom and change do not claim a monopoly on the representation of the forces of the revolution. Rather, we call on all the forces of the revolution to develop a common vision and mobilize our people and the regional and international communities to support this vision and the right of our people to a full democratic civil system.

The Forces of Freedom and Change will not participate in the dialogue process (Rotana Hotel) or any false political process that seeks to legitimize the coup.

The entitlements of creating a democratic climate have not been completed, and without them, no political process will succeed, and it must be implemented immediately.

The political process must take place through stages, the first of which is the end of the coup and the new constitutional establishment that is based on full civil authority and deals with the peace and its completion, distancing the military institution from politics without its participation in the civil authority, security and military reform and building a single, professional and national army.

We explain what happens after the meeting:

– Freedom and Change will deliver a clear vision about ending the coup and handing over power to the people for the tripartite mechanism and the regional and international communities after consulting with all its allies and friends from the forces of resistance and revolution.

– Freedom and Change will hold a meeting with the tripartite mechanism to clarify what happened in the meeting and its rejection of any false political process, and the need to respect the foundations of the political process leading to achieving the goals of the revolution.

Finally, the political process is a product of what we do and do on the ground, and it is not a substitute for the main mechanism that we adopt, which is the daily work of the popular peaceful resistance and its civil mechanisms of processions, strikes and sit-ins, which are the weapon of the revolution’s forces that reject the coup and believe in democratic and civil transformation.

From political parties, union and professional bodies, and resistance committees, which we will continue our effort to escalate in all forms until all of our people’s demands for freedom, peace, justice and the establishment of full civil authority are achieved.

Forces of Freedom and Change

Executive Office

June 10, 2022 AD

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office – Press Statement (09.06.2022)

At the invitation of the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs/”Molly V” and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Sudan, an informal meeting will be held between a delegation from the Freedom and Change and the military component and will address the following issues:

– Procedures to end the coup of October 25, 2021 AD and all its consequences, hand over power to civilians, and immediately implement the benefits of creating a democratic climate, all without exception.

– Stopping the procedures of the tripartite mechanism in bringing together forces supporting the coup and the elements of the former regime in the political process, and limiting its procedures between those who carried out the coup and those who resisted it from the revolutionary forces.

– Discussion about how the political process will be comprehensive after the forces of revolution, resistance and putschists have agreed on how and procedures to end the coup.

Sons and daughters of our people, this is our position, and we will present what happened in the meeting with all transparency to the forces of revolution and change that resist the coup and believe in democratic and civil transformation and complete the tasks of the glorious December revolution.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office

June 9, 2022 AD

Sudan: Al Dayum Al Shargiyah Resistance Committees Coordination – June 9 Procession (08.06.2022)

The rebellious people of Sudan:

Here we go out again tomorrow, Thursday, June 9, on the streets of Khartoum and the states of Sudan, demanding what our brothers and sisters, the martyrs, have demanded before us, in all regions of our Sudan, the right of the Sudanese citizen to live and to cherish their precious souls.

We continue to observe the coup authority’s contempt for the legitimate demands of the Sudanese people, as well as the continuation of brutality, murder, and oppression.

We and our comrades in the resistance committees in Khartoum and the states were and still are committed to the demands of the Sudanese people, who categorically reject the rule of the military and have clearly expressed their demand that there is no partnership, no negotiation with the military, and no legitimacy for the coup.

The real change is inevitably coming, and the Sudanese people will seize power from the hands of the putschists, in a completely peaceful fashion, just like we did with the corrupt former regime.

Aldayum Alshargiyah Resistance Committees Coordination calls on all the Sudanese people to go out tomorrow, Thursday, June 9, in a procession, towards the palace of the putschists, “Palace of fools”.

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Aldayum Alshargiyah Resistance Committees Coordination

Media Office

June 8, 2022

Sudan: Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination – The Tripartite Mechanism Invitation to Direct Negotiation with the Coup Authority (08.06.2022)

The overthrow of the coup, the victory of the revolution, and the achievement of its objectives are accomplished through the strength and unity of the revolutionary bodies resisting dictatorship, as we observe certain parties attempting to drive a wedge between our revolutionary forces, but we will not allow this to happen.

The masses of our resistant people: we, in the coordination of the resistance committees, have received an invitation from the tripartite mechanism in order to open the door for direct negotiations with the coup authorities through the negotiating table.

We said it and repeated it again and again, that there is no negotiation with the coup authorities, no negotiation over the civil state, and no partnership with the Military Council.

The top-down political solution pursued by the tripartite mechanism falls short of tackling the root causes of the conflict’s actual crisis and prevents addressing the underlying causes of the real historical problem facing our country.

We, the Khartoum State Resistance Committees, believe that the solution to the Sudanese crisis lies first in overthrowing the coup of 25 October and holding its perpetrators accountable.

That is why we refuse to sit with the leaders of the coup at one table, and we affirm that any result of this negotiation does not concern us, and we will continue to fill the streets with the steadfast masses of our people.

We also hope that the international community will stand with the Sudanese people’s ambitions and aspirations for democratic transition through the establishment of a civilian authority, rather than against it through a new partnership with the military coup authority. And that we reject the coup’s leaders who have committed horrific crimes that that are unforgivable and not subject to statute of limitations, while ensuring that we do not negotiate with the military establishment, we are determined to overthrow its leaders, thoroughly reform, and hold them accountable. We reject their participation in political life and are ready to pay the highest price possible for it.

Lastly, we call on the sons and daughters of our people to move forward and work to mobilize the capabilities and resources of our people in order to support and strengthen these choices and the continuous popular pressure to achieve them.

Signed by:

Khartoum City Resistance Committees Coordination

Sharg Al Nil Janub Coordination

Karari Resistance Committees Coordination

Dar Al Salam Umada Resistance Committees

El Hajj Yousif Resistance Committees Coordination

Umbada Neighborhoods Committees Coordination

Sudan: UN Chief Calls for ‘Good Faith’ Effort by All, Ahead of Direct Talks (06.06.2022)

The UN chief has called for military authorities in Sudan and civilian representatives and political leaders, to enter direct talks over the future of the country in “good faith”, following continued unrest.

NEW YORK, United States of America, June 6, 2022 – A military coup in October, led to the suspension of a power sharing between civilian representatives and senior officers, which had been established since the overthrow of former ruler, Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

More protests

Political protests took place in several parts of the capital on Monday, according to news reports, which met with a heavy response from security forces, including the use of tear gas. Since the coup, a violent crackdown has seen nearly 100 civilians killed, according to UN figures.

Adama Dieng, the UN Designated Expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, said in a statement issued at the weekend that he was shocked by the killing of a young man in a protest on Friday, reportedly shot in the chest by security forces.

“There can be no justification for firing live ammunition at unarmed protestors…This is a tragedy – each of these deaths is a tragedy for Sudan – another young man whose family are in mourning today. His killing must be investigated immediately, and the perpetrator prosecuted.”

Trilateral approach

Envoys of the trilateral mechanism facilitating intra-Sudan talks – the United Nations, the African Union and regional body, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) – have stressed that it is up to the Sudanese, particularly the authorities, to create an environment conducive to the success of any negotiations.

Briefing the Security Council in May, the UN Special Representative for Sudan, Volker Perthes, warned that time was short to reach a solution to the protracted political crisis in Sudan.

Last week, the military leadership reportedly lifted a state of emergency in place since the October coup, designed to encourage meaningful dialogue, in advance of a return to a democratic transition.

Facilitators

In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres, welcomed the efforts of the trilateral mechanism, “to facilitate a solution”.

“As Sudanese stakeholders prepare to engage in direct talks, he encourages them to participate in good faith and to continue to work towards establishing a conducive environment for a constructive dialogue in the interest of the Sudanese people.

“The Secretary-General condemns all calls for violence and reiterates the importance of a peaceful atmosphere for the talks to be successful”, the statement continued.

Hate speech fuelling violence

“He is also concerned about attempts to undermine the efforts of the trilateral mechanism and its envoys.”

Mr. Guterres stressed that “all forms of hate speech represent an attack on tolerance, undermine social cohesion and can lay the foundation for violence, setting back the cause of peace.”

He reaffirmed his strong support for the work of the UN assistance mission, UNITAMS, “as it continues to support the Sudanese aspirations for democracy, peace and prosperity.”

In his statement, Mr. Dieng encouraged all Sudanese “to contribute to efforts towards a political settlement and resumption of the important legal and institutional reforms started by the transitional government.”

Sudan: Executive Office of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces – Press Statement (06.06.2022)

The Foreign Relations and Communication Committee of the Executive Office of the Forces of Freedom and Change held two meetings this morning, the first with the tripartite mechanism in the presence of the envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Volker Perthes and envoys of the African Union and IGAD, Dr. Mohamed El Hassan Labat and Mr. Ismail Weiss, at the United Nations premises in Khartoum.

This was followed by a meeting with the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ms. Molly V. The two meetings dealt with the current political developments in the country and the progress of the political process.

We summarize the position of freedom and change in the two meetings of the masses of our people, public opinion and the media as follows:

1- The representatives of the coalition conveyed the complete and correct non-compliance with the procedures for creating a democratic climate that we demanded and announced by the coup authority which is represented in lifting the state of emergency, releasing detainees, ending violence and repression and protecting civilians, and the measures did not include stopping the regressive decisions that canceled the decisions of the dismantling committee and returned the employees of the former National Congress regime. Despite the announcement of the lifting of the state of emergency, the violence continued, live bullets fired at protesters and stormed residential neighborhoods and health facilities, which resulted in the death of a martyr and a number of wounded last Friday, bringing the number of martyrs to hundreds all over Sudan, the coup authority failed to protect civilians, and not all detainees were released and new numbers of them were arrested. The Forces for Freedom and Change requested the formation of mechanisms that work with the tripartite mechanism to release all detainees and stop violence, especially since there are active civil society organizations, led by lawyers and doctors.

2- The Forces of Freedom and Change received an invitation from the tripartite mechanism for a technical meeting next Wednesday in the presence of military and civil parties, and the Forces of Freedom and Change conveyed their apologies for attending the meeting, as it does not address the nature of the current crisis represented by the October 25 coup which any political process must lead to its complete end and the establishment of a civil and democratic authority, which cannot be done by flooding the political process with parties representing the coup camp or linked to the former regime, or by following recipes that express the coup and its goals. All steps of the political process must be designed in consultation with the main parties of the revolution and resistance forces, and any subsequent step must be preceded by the actual implementation of the climate preparation measures.

3- The Forces of Freedom and Change affirmed to help the US Secretary of State their keenness that the political process lead to ending the coup and establishing a real democratic transformation led by a full civilian authority aligned with the revolution and its issues, and to lead the army away from politics and a comprehensive security reform that leads to building a single professional national army. And that the issue of justice be placed at the heart of any political solution, which requires that this process be designed in a way that ensures the achievement of these results and does not deviate from them.

4- The forces of freedom and change with the inclusion of the political process and the participation of other parties, such as the forces of armed struggle and the actors who believe in democratic transition.

The Forces of Freedom and Change affirm the continuation of their efforts with all regional and international actors to serve the issues of our people and achieve their goals of freedom, justice and peace.

Executive Office of the Forces of Declaration of Freedom and Change

June 6, 2022 AD

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Press Statement (04.06.2022)

During the past few days, joint forces of the armed forces, police, rapid support and individuals believed to be affiliated with the notorious security apparatus have carried out security campaigns in the outskirts and south of the capital, Khartoum, under the name of fighting crime, these campaigns were accompanied by widespread attacks on an ethnic basis that affected the residents of those areas, who are mostly displaced from the areas of conflict and war in the west of the country and the state of Blue Nile, such as the residents of the Angola neighborhood in the Mayo region, in a repetition of the despicable scenarios followed by the former regime before its fall, our people confronted it with the famous revolutionary chant, “Oh, racist and arrogant, the whole country is Darfur.” Houses were raided and safe families were terrorized in a horrific and humiliating manner, without presenting legal documents.

Some of them were blackmailed into giving up these holdings in exchange for not being arrested, and many innocent citizens were photographed on the basis that they were perpetrators of looting crimes without any investigations or judicial procedures, according to the testimony of many of them in a documented investigative report published by the Ayin Media Network.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party categorically reject any discrimination between Sudanese women and men on an ethnic, regional or religious basis, and we believe that this disgraceful behavior has nothing to do with fighting crime, and reveals the obvious flaw in the approach of the regular forces, it stipulates the imperative to reform, train and represent all the daughters and sons of Sudan after merging all the armies in them, and to qualify them adequately to carry out their duties stipulated in the law in a professional manner, we also see that the revolutionary authority is walking in the footsteps of the defunct rescue regime, the hoof fell on the hoof, and it will inevitably meet the same fate of falling.

Noureddine Babiker

Party Spokesperson

June 4, 2022 AD