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

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – A statement about the rise of a martyr as a result of the coup authority’s suppression of today’s processions on the anniversary of the massacre of the sit-ins (03.06.2022)

Our resistant people;

The same treacherous hand is still pressing the trigger of the killing machine and the systematic repression against the peaceful revolutionaries, under the orders of the revolutionaries, the opportunists, and the remnants of the former regime.

In today’s roaring processions in the capital and the provinces, in commemoration of the martyrs of the valiant sit-in dispersal massacre, the martyr Ahmed Abdullah Ahmad rose past the path of hundreds of his honorable martyr comrades, leaving a lump in the throat of all the honorable and our duty to pay with the inevitable overthrow of the coup and the completion of the process of civil democratic transformation under the leadership of a purely civil authority, leading to the state of justice in which the provisions of the law perpetuate the perpetrators of all crimes and violations against Sudanese and Sudanese in all parts of the wounded country, and dozens of wounded people have also fallen in today’s processions. We pray for them to recover quickly.

Our people are bridges;

The path of freedom, peace and justice is rugged and fraught with great sacrifices, and we in the Sudanese Congress Party are determined, with our people and their revolutionary forces lined up in the broad resistance front, not to retreat from the era of the martyrs, and that there is no way to salvation except by our unity behind the same noble goals for which blood, tears and pure sweat were shed.

It is the duty of the hour to work to escalate our peaceful resistance movement in all parts of Sudan with diversification of its tried and innovative tools, with the need to agree on a unified leadership that works to bring about the required field, media and political coordination.

Long live our people free and victorious

Information Secretariat

June 3, 2022 AD

Sudan: Al-Bashir’s henchmen continues the crackdown on the civilians supporting the revolution

GIS vehicles in Bahri out to intimidate people

Today is the 3rd Year Anniversary of the massacre and violent attack on Khartoum Sit-Down Protest in front of the military headquarters. In 2019 the civilians and the people of the revolution was met with a fierce striking force, which has ended in officially killing 120 people and injuring over 900 people. There was findings of hidden mass-graves as well after this and promises of investigations into the people behind it. However, there has been no results of this and the Transitional Sovereign Council haven’t done anything about it.

Today’s Sovereign Council is in general the military commanders of the Al-Bashir era who don’t want to give up power. That’s why they have done two coup d’etat’s and blocked a possible move to a civilian government. The technocrats who was able to get a foot in was later kicked out in the second coup. Therefore, the transformation of it now is fully operative with people who signs of and works indirectly with the forces who took over first in the post Al-Bashir.

This is the military commanders who was sponsoring genocide in Darfur and who had no trouble using force to keep the Al-Bashir dictatorship alive. The same folks are now again in talks with stakeholders and foreign entities to finalize the stalemate. However, the revolutionary organizations, the resistance councils and others don’t believe in this dialogue. Why should they?

There was similar after Al-Bashir, which the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA) and Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) signed off on and agreed upon on the first Transitional Sovereign Council. The second coup dismissed these and the talks now would be to revive the shockingly abysmal agreement of the past. That would be to give headway to another brother like Hamdok and get him to be “civilian” figurehead of an unelected junta government.

The UN Special Envoys and Representatives like Adama Dieng and Volker Perthes can do anything in good faith. However, the two who is head of the Sovereign Council isn’t trustworthy fellows. They have already betrayed and tried to hijack the revolution, which is still being fought over on the streets. Both Al-Burhan and Hamdan Dagalo “Hemeti” who both isn’t concerned about the people on the streets. They rather seems to use violence, get rid of them and stop them in their tracks. It’s like they don’t understand or isn’t willing to see their vision. That’s because the they would loose power following it.

The UN organizations and troika involved in the dialogue now should know that the talks without several of parties undermine the legitimacy. In combination of the Resistance Councils and others who don’t believe in it.

Why should they? Because, the ones in power are the henchmen of Al-Bashir. Their actions and the coup d’etat’s only shows how they are willing to consolidate power. There is nothing new under the sun and these men will use all strategies to overcome this revolution. However, the Sudanese people are resilient and unforgiving. They are fighting to have a say and the military commanders cannot contain it forever.

Sooner or later, something got to give and they got too. Because, the people are on the streets and marching for a civilian and representative government of their own. Not a military one, which is operating to this day. Peace.

Sudan: Alliance of Forces of Freedom and Change – Statement on (convening the meeting of the Central Council for Freedom and Change) – (03.06.2022)

On Thursday afternoon, June 2, 2022, in the house of the Sudanese Congress Party, the meeting of the Central Council of the Alliance of Forces of Freedom and Change was held, which discussed in detail the issues of resistance and the defeat of the coup and the aspirations of the mass movement, as he devoted a large space to the internal organizational issues of the alliance as follows:

First: The session began with a moment of silence for the martyrs of the massacre of the General Command, and the passage of three years, and the meeting devoted a space to discuss issues of justice, accountability and retribution. Its failure and failure to address it with a comprehensive and effective approach after the fall of the Bashir regime and his dissolved National Congress Party, and how to deal with it as a priority within the issues of the new establishment of the civil democratic path after the defeat of the coup and the overthrow of his authority.

Second: The meeting listened to the report on the political and organizational performance of the Executive Office for Freedom and Change during the months of April and May, which dealt with the efforts of the Executive Office during the previous period. The Central Council also stressed the intensification of efforts and work to build a united front, unify the forces of the revolution, expand the base of popular and mass resistance and diversify its tools. The Council warned of attempts to restore the former regime and its elements to the political scene after it was tombed by the December revolution, and to stress the resolute response to that by all the forces of the revolution.

Third: The meeting discussed the detailed vision of the Forces of Freedom and Change coalition on the political process proposed by the tripartite mechanism, the meeting stressed the adherence of Freedom and Change to its declared position that any credible political process must clearly lead to the end of the coup and the new constitutional establishment of a transitional path led by a full civilian authority and the complete disassociation of the military institution from politics, with the initiation of a comprehensive process of security and military reform which leads to one professional and national army and with a comprehensive treatment of justice issues in a manner that addresses all crimes and violations committed in a comprehensive and equitable manner, and after extensive discussion, the Central Council approved the detailed vision of the coalition on the political process and decided to broadly communicate it with all sectors of the Sudanese people and with the regional and international family to block the path to any false solution, and a clear definition of the solution that achieves the goals of the street and does not deviate from them.

Fourth: The Central Council has formed (15) specialized internal committees based on the approved regulations on March 25, 2022, the chose the heads and rapporteurs of these committees and directed them immediately to assume their duties in a way that increases the effectiveness and efficiency of the work of the political and organizational alliance, and decided to hold another meeting of the council after two weeks to follow up the work of the specialized committees and to check on their progress in the path of developing and strengthening the work of the alliance.

Fifth: The meeting approved the conception of a workshop to evaluate the transitional period, which the coalition is working to organize in partnership with an independent party, the Democratic newspaper, during the next few weeks, and directed the Executive Office to expedite its establishment, provided that it includes a detailed, independent and honest evaluation in the following aspects:

– Political assessment of the coalition

– Assessment of transitional governance institutions

– Evaluation of performance in multiple transmission files during the last period.

Finally: The Central Council called on the masses of our people to participate in the processions commemorating the massacre of the sit-in on Friday, June 3, 2022 AD, he denounced the continued excessive violence by the coup authority, which it practices towards peaceful processions and mass movement, and the Central Council stressed that the peaceful resistance movement will continue without retreat until the goals of the Sudanese people of defeating the coup and completing the tasks of the glorious December revolution are complete and undiminished.

Alliance of Forces of Freedom and Change – Central Council

Friday 3 June 2022 AD

Sudan: Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination- The Commemoration of The General Command Sit-in Dispersal Massacre (01.06.2022).

Here we return to the streets, which we never left, but we are going through our decisive rounds to overthrow the coup authority, completely remove the military from the political process, and prosecute all those responsible for violence, killing, shooting, rape, and all other violations against peaceful revolutionaries and innocent citizens in the vicinity of peaceful anti-coup protests.

We go out in our processions on June 3rd, The Commemoration of The General Command Sit-in Dispersal Massacre, united and unifying to advance the interests of people who are eager for change and the establishment of a state based on citizenship, the rule of law, and institutions. The activities begin on Thursday with preparations for the third day of June, which starts with tire burning in the morning, marches to the cities after Friday prayer, and concludes with a one-day sit-in.

We also confirm that we will monitor and work to document any violations, violence, or crimes committed by the brutal coup authorities. The revolution is advancing to a point where triumph is inevitable, and the coup is overthrown by the choice of our people, the ultimate authority.

Field Office

Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination

June 1, 2022

Signed by:

Khartoum City Resistance Committees Coordination

Greater Omdurman Resistance Committees Coordination

Bahri Neighborhoods Committees

El Hajj Yousif Neighborhoods Committees Association

Sharg Al Nil Janub Coordination

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Sudan: South Khartoum & Al Kalakla Resistance Committees Coordination – Press Release (29.05.2022)

The military coup forces were not content with their abuses and repression of the honorable revolutionaries. They were not content with torturing and killing all those who protested their crimes, resisted their power, and calling for their downfall through the usual peacefulness of our revolution.

The forces of the military coup are committed to make our people’s life a living hell. This morning, they arrested a Kandaka and her whole family from their house and transported her to Al-Kalakla Police Department without charging her with a crime, rejecting bail and refusing to work with her lawyers to secure her release.

We denounce the approach employed by the coup forces and reject their behavior against the Kandaka and her noble family.

We hold these forces fully accountable for the detainees’ safety and demand their immediate release if no charges are brought against them.

Media Office

May 29, 2022

Sudan: Khartoum City Resistance Committees Coordination – Events of Al Kalakla Processions May 28, 2022 (28.05.2022)

In the name of the rebellious and steadfast Sudanese people, we pray for God’s mercy to be bestowed upon the souls of the honorable martyrs, and we also send our sincere prayers to the injured for a speedy recovery.

Today, Al-Kalakla revolutionaries marched in procession, announcing a revolutionary escalation against the coup. They fulfilled their promise by filling the streets with chants.

As usual, the processions were met with extreme violence by the forces of the coup military authority, using a variety of weapons against the peaceful processions, including live bullets, shotgun shells, and tear gas grenades against the peaceful protesters, resulting in a large number of casualties among Al-Kalakla revolutionaries, some of whom were serious and in an unstable condition, leading to the death of two martyrs:

The martyr Alaa Al Din Adil, Live bullet shot to the chest.

The martyr Izz Al Din Al Noor, suffocation from tear gas.

They were killed by the same individuals who never ceased shedding the blood of the Sudanese in order to maintain power and protect the interests of the dark forces.

We call on all comrades in the resistance committees and the forces rejecting the coup to intensify their efforts and reach the peak of the resistance and revolutionary action that leads to the overthrow of the coup in the coming period by regularly taking to the streets and working to ensure the success of the strikes and vigils.

Media Office

May 28, 2022

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office – Statement on the escalation of the coup d’état’s violence and the threat to the country’s food security (25.05.2022)

Yesterday, the escalating violence campaigns of the coup authority continued against the defenseless of the revolutionaries of our people, causing dozens of casualties in Berri, before the blood of the martyr Muhammad Khalis, who fell in Omdurman by the bullets of the security and military forces of this revolutionary authority, dries up, let this pure blood be written with an ink of light that the revolution of our people will remain and that violence in confronting it will only increase its determination and adherence to peace as a noble weapon in the face of the forces of oppression and darkness.

This violence proves what we have been repeating in the forces of freedom and change that calls to engage in the political process now contradict the facts on the ground, which prove that the coup authority is determined to walk in the blood of our people without hesitation in order to monopolize an illegitimate authority among this people. In view of this, we in the Forces of Freedom and Change call for (to open an international investigation into the incidents of violence in different parts of the country, to ensure that the facts are revealed and to hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable in an open and transparent manner).

On the other hand, at a time when the repercussions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine threaten global food security, and in light of a terrible decline in the reserves of wheat and food grains in the world, which threatens our African continent in general and our country in particular, and at the same time, the coup authority is refraining from providing resources to buy the local wheat crop, which has suffered from the repercussions of the coup to reduce its production to less than half of what was produced last year under the transitional civilian rule, the coup authority’s refusal to buy local wheat despite the doubling of its global prices, throwing farmers to death as they are unable to pay their obligations and contribute to the failure of the agricultural season next year, and it threatens the food security of the country, which has reliable reports that nearly half of its population is under the threat of severe food shortage and famine and its increasing indicators before the end of this year, and due to this neglect, locally produced crops began to find their way outside the country, unlike the rest of the world, which is now building food reserves and working to secure its position, and prevent the leakage of its crops in anticipation of the food disaster that the world is going through.

This coup is an imminent danger that affects all the daughters and sons of our people, and its resistance and defeat is an individual duty that must not be retracted an inch. The future is worse, and if we do not gather our unity and strength and confront it firmly and decisively, the cost will become more expensive day after day, and our people will pay it from their lives, security, strength and safety.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office

May 25, 2022 AD