Having come to power himself in a 1989 military coup, Sudanese President Omar Bashir fell just shy of 30 years in power on Thursday, when the Sudanese military abruptly announced that he had been removed from power.
The move was announced by Gen. Awad Ibn Auf, who is both the country’s Vice President and Defense Minister, and now appears to be head of the junta. He said the intention is to rule the country for a transitional period of two years.
Protesters had been organizing against Bashir for awhile, and they were quick to reject this new coup, seeing it as a cynical attempt by the bulk of the existing regime to stay in power by shuffling out Bashir for another leader.
Going forward, the junta has already announced a three month state of emergency, which is likely to be used as a pretext to force the protesters off the streets. The US, who were just in the process of normalizing ties with Bashir, are suspending talks with the new junta.
None of our business.
I’ll be relieved if the US govt at least didn’t have a role in making the situation worse.
Wouldn’t count on it.
I’m wondering if the bank accounts of certain Syrian officers suddenly got a lot larger.
Once we pay those nice, articulate protest leaders that always seem to know what is it that people want — we are in it up to our eyeballs, It iis amazing that population keeps falling for it — kniwing full well that outcome of revolutions is always chaos, more difficult life conditions, and ioften violence. The leaders want “demicracy”, meaning only US spproved leadership is acceptable.
But as others have learned the inly cure to revolutions is military rule. Clear, order and stability oriented, food supplies secured.
In Sudan, old ruler and military can still reach a consensus on how to deal with the revolutionaries. Unfortunatelly, the only formula that worked was applied in Egypt. Al-Sisi first masacred any Muslim Brotherhood protestors, sending message to the opposing Salafis that their fate would be safe. Salafis went home.
I really know it is not our business, but our government using our money made it our business. There is nothing we can do — protesting, writing?
I think we need a collection agency, to determine all the forms of expenditures associated with foreign meddling of any sort — and start a collection process. To determine entities that oee us money, individuals carrying out illegal nation destroying/rebuilding, and fight through courts.
Since Embassies are now places where journalists get killed or arrested and very likely killed —. we must find out if our courts are places where laws are applied selectively.