


Sudan: Civil Unrest – Flash Update No. 2 (08.06.2019)







We have received several reports about the continued campaign of the Military Coup Council in arresting political activists and protesters. The militias of ‘the security committee’ of the old regime, RSF and Janjaweed brigades have detained a number of political leaders and threatened them with assassination, in addition to the forced disappearance of a large number of revolutionaries whose fate remains unknown. This violent campaign of the criminal militias has also reached a number of employees of banks, electricity companies, airports, civil aviation, and other vital sectors with pursuits, arrests, and threats, in an attempt to break the planned civil disobedience and the general political strike through which all sectors of the Sudanese people have come together to overthrow the Military Coup Council and transfer power to a civil transitional authority in accordance with the Declaration of Freedom and Change (DFC).
In continuation of the methods of intimidation, terrorism, and spreading disinformation, it has come to our knowledge that filthy schemes are being planned by the Military Coup Council to stage violent incidents and attacks on citizens’ properties, in order to attribute it to the revolutionaries and to the DFC forces. It is a sick and desperate attempt to shake the unity of the Sudanese people and their unwavering commitment to tools of nonviolent resistance that are ultimately manifested in the complete civil disobedience and the general political strike.
In the face of these catastrophic and repressive developments, we call upon the workers in all institutions and facilities, in the public and private sectors, to engage and strictly adhere to the tools of civil disobedience and the general political strike, to cherish the blood of the martyrs and protect the lives of their colleagues and with loyalty and respect for their continued struggle. We also appeal to all regional and international institutions, especially those related to banks and financial and economic transactions, not to deal with the oppressive authority that is occupying the country, to demand a stop to the bloodshed and assassinations faced by political leaders and activists, while fully holding the coup council and its militias responsible for any attack or arrest.
Finally, we salute the commitment and dedication of the revolutionary people of Sudan, and we affirm that we are anticipating all possibilities and are working to combat them for as long as it takes, until the dawn of salvation, and we are sure it is nigh.
We call on all activists, neighbourhood resistance committees, and strike committees to raise the level of readiness and order among them, take all precautions and be prepared to face these campaigns with the necessary peacefulness, awareness, and caution.
Sudanese Professionals’ Association
8 June 2019

As a continuation of your various and strong roles in supporting the revolution, and in concurrence with the civil disobedience, we ask you to boycott all embassies and Military Council representation posts outside Sudan, and to avoid any dealings that could provide funds to the Coup Council.
We also request that you do not transfer any money through banks or any establishment that could go to the funds of the regime.
We stand united, firm, and strong, inside and outside Sudan, until all our demands are met, and our civil disobedience is successful.
SPA Media Team
8th of June, 2019

8 June 2019, Addis Abeba: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat welcomes the visit to Khartoum by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister and current Chairman of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD),Dr Abiy Ahmed, and the constructive meetings he held with the parties in the crisis in Sudan on Friday, 8 June 2019.
The Chairperson further wishes to express his deep appreciation for the close collaboration between IGAD and the AU Special Envoy Prof Mohamed El Hacen Lebatt and the Special Representative for Sudan Ambassador Mohamed Belaiche for their joint efforts in bringing parties to urgently resume negotiations.
In this regard, the Chairperson notes with satisfaction that the cooperation between IGAD and the AUC is firmly in line with the AU Peace and Security Council decision of 6 June 2019, and further reinforces the AU-led facilitation process to ensure that Africa continues to speak with one voice in its efforts to support the Sudanese people resolve the crisis in Sudan.
The Chairperson encourages the parties to undertake all the necessary political and security measures required to pave the way for a rapid resumption of negotiations to achieve a consensual agreement for transition towards civilian-led rule.
The Chairperson further stresses the need for all foreign actors to refrain from interference, and support the African Union efforts to support a Sudanese-led and and owned process that respects the will and aspirations of the people of Sudan, the region and the Continent.

The Transitional Military Council is really insane thinking of their strategy going into negotiations and mediation with the Forces of Freedom and Change Delaration (FFC), as if they ever was serious about anything else than using the guns on innocent civilians. The TMC should show serious finesse and gratitude for being in power, instead of their crimes against humanity and vindictive actions.
The TMC is really stalling their plans for a negotiations or talks with the FFC. As there are reports of two more leaders arrested after the meeting at the Ethiopian Embassy in Khartoum.
These being the SPLM-N leaders Ismail Jallab and Mubarak Ardol. Therefore, three SPLM-N leaders are in detention and one from the SPA. This shows the intention of the TMC. The TMC are really not serious.
With the reports of these actions done to the FFC. The TMC is clearly not planning for real talks. They are just doing it for photo-ops and getting headlines. Hoping it will die down and drown like the bodies have done in river Nile. Because, the TMC is a military movement, they are using the arms as their tool to finish things up and not even thinking of talking.
The TMC is not to be trusted, not to be legitimate body, as it is an military junta and outfit, which is only there to try take the power of the state without legitimacy. The TMC will not give up to a civilian ruler, because that means they have to give way. That is why they are arresting the FFC, the SPA and SPLM-N leaders.
This is a real sign and the Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali is on a loose goose hunt. There is no way at this junction he will not get anything. Not if they are contemplating real talks with serious measures for the future. Everything else is just lie, a manufactured story, as if the TMC would be a serious governing body, they would have acted differently and not arrested the counter-parts in the process. Especially not directly after the mediation meeting, which three leaders of the FFC has been detained since.
The TMC is trying to intimidate, to challenge and getting anyone with submission by arms and by taking the leaders of the people away. This is who they are and they are not even hiding it. Peace.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) today will not go back to the negotiation table with the Transitional Military Council (TMC) until those responsible for last week’s barbaric attacks on demonstrators at the Army HQ are brought to justice.
Following up on our announcement of yesterday, we stand firm in our rejection of any proposed resumption of direct negotiations with the Military Council. While we appreciate the mediation of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, H.E. Abiy Ahmad, we need to emphasize that for such an effort to be successful, the following measures must be immediately met:
*Setup an internationally recognized independent investigation panel, with international panel to probe into the criminal attacks on protesters near the Army HQ in Khartoum and other sit-in camps across the country, as well as all crimes committed since April 11, and bring perpetrators and those who issued the orders to fair trial.
*Put an end to the systematic killing and torturing of peaceful citizens by the Janjaweed militias and withdraw those forces out of cities, towns, and villages.
*Free all political detainees and prisoners of war and put an end to the ongoing arrest campaign against citizens, particularly those working in strategic sectors such as banking, utilities and aviation, as well political activists and revolutionaries.
*Restore public freedoms and cease all violations of the rights of expression and association.
*Lift the ban on the internet service, imposed by the coup junta to cover up for their atrocious crimes in the streets of cities and villages.
*The ultimate aim of any mediation effort should be to facilitate the transfer of power to a transitional civilian authority in line with the Freedom and Change Declaration.
*Our immediate focus now is on ensuring the success of our all-out civil disobedience and open political strike.
SPA
07 June 2019

It is hard to imagine what the bright minds of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) is thinking as the Forces of Freedom and Change Declaration was earlier today having a meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed Ali at the Ethiopian Embassy in Khartoum.
However, the TMC was not accepting this nor their demands. As the FFC are do dangerous to the TMC. As they are now arresting one of their leaders of the FFC, vital leader in the Sudanese Professional Authority and the Manager of the Central Bank of Sudan, this being Mohamed Ismat.
If the TMC thinking this is wise to do. It is not. Not only is this all undermining the supposed efforts to even mediate or hold talks with the TMC. As the TMC is showing again, what sort of leaders and people they are. They are talking peace, but waging war. They are speaking of unity, but spreading widespread violence across the Republic.
The TMC have for some reason accepted that the Ethiopian PM arrived in Khartoum. If it was a PR Stunt, the TMC leader Al-Burhan looked like he has had better days. Because the photo-ops of the meeting between the heads of state. Looked more a like a meeting for separating parents, than people who was engaging in meaningful dialogue. But maybe the snap was a mismanaged effort of spoiling the efforts behind the scenes.
Whatever it was, the idea of dialogue and talks, when the one party can dismantle, kill and arrest you without any forewarning. Shows what sort of leadership the TMC is and that it is no different from what was under dictator Al-Bashir. Just a new head and a rising star in the state-militia, the Rapid Support Force aka Janjaweed. Whose allowed to roam the streets and be the guards of the tyranny under the new rulers.
If the TMC wants to be serious transitional government, they should at least be able to cover the basics. Instead, they are showing their viscousness and vindictive ways to hold on to power. This arrest is just yet another violation. Another step in the wrong direction. As this proves, that the TMC cannot be trusted. Even on aftermath of suspension from the African Union. That is seemingly not enough for the leadership to care about their actions. They are just pursuing the same goal, by any means possible.
We have to see if the TMC will even listen to the FFC or if they will continue to arrest the ones who speaks up against them.
The FFC released this demands today:
“The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) made six demands to the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed when they met him today, as conditions for the resumption negotiations:
1) the removal of the deployed armed forces from the capital and towns across Sudan.
2) the formation of an international committee to investigate the crimes committed against the Sudanese population.
3) the release of all detainees and those facing prosecution for charges against the regime.
4) the return of internet across the country.
5) the freedom of press and all media channels
6) the TMC to take full responsibility for the emptying sit-in site”
Let’s see if the TMC will comply or just play like its crickets. Because, that is what it seems and this negotiations or dialogue is just buying time. So, that the revolution and the demonstrations doesn’t rise up again after the massacre. Who knows, but the TMC cannot be trusted, as they grab weapons to prove a point. That is how it seems and most likely it will happen again.
If not, more of the FFC and SPA will be arrested or charged by the authorities, because they cannot manage this noise… well, its the will of the citizens, which the military doesn’t want to comply too. Peace.



