Young people, who make up the majority of Sudan, have been leading the uprising, and they’re not giving up: “We must get our rights”
"The Alliance for Freedom and Change is fully responsible for recent unfortunate incidents ... including blocking roads which is violating international humanitarian laws," Lieutenant General Jamaleddine Omar said of the pro-democracy general strike,. He is a member of the TMC, the paramilitary group that pro-democracy protesters have accused of violently killing hundreds of Sudanese citizens.
Civil unrest isn’t new to Sudan. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir seized power in 1989, when the country was in the midst of a 21-year civil war,. He ended the conflict in 2005, but then started a new one: the genocide in Darfur. Al-Bashir had been president of Sudan for more than three decades when anti-government demonstrations engulfed the nation’s capital of Khartoum in late 2018. Many Sudanese people could not afford to buy food,which snowballed into a movement to oust him from office.
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