This archive report was first published on 2 July 2019.
Published on July 2, 2019, Sudanese protesters have called for a civil disobedience campaign on July 14, amid ongoing tensions with the ruling military council.
The move, aimed at increasing pressure on the generals to hand power to a civilian administration, comes as protest leaders and ruling generals traded blame for the latest violence during the mass 'million-man' march on Sunday that left 10 dead and scores wounded.
Protest leaders blamed the generals for Sunday's bloodshed, with prominent protest leader Mohamed Naji al-Assam saying, "The military council is completely responsible for these lives lost."
However, the generals in turn blamed the protest movement, the Alliance for Freedom and Change, for Sunday's violence, with General Jamal Omer saying, "Freedom and Change... incited protesters to go toward the republican palace (prompting) police forces to use tear gas to disperse protesters."
The civil disobedience campaign, the second such general strike in less than a month, comes as protest leaders and ruling generals traded blame for the latest violence during the mass 'million-man' march on Sunday that left 10 dead and scores wounded.
Security forces were deployed en masse in key Khartoum squares, firing tear gas in several areas including at protesters attempting to reach the capital's residential palace.
