Thousands of Sudanese pro-democracy protesters remain defiant of the country's military rulers, a day after the main sit-in site in the capital was violently emptied by security forces.
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Latest on the aftermath of the Sudanese military’s crackdown on a sit-in protest camp :Egypt’s national airline, EgyptAir, is saying it has canceled two flights to Sudan’s capital, a day after a deadly crackdown there by the military against a pro-democracy sit-in. Protest organizers say 35 people died in the bloodshed.
The Sudanese Pilots Association says it will take part in the civilian disobedience called for by protest leaders.The union is an affiliate of the Sudanese Professionals’ Association, which has spearheaded protests that led to the military’s ouster of longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir in April.Thousands of Sudanese pro-democracy protesters remain defiant of the country’s military rulers, a day after the main sit-in site in the capital was violently emptied by security forces.
Nazim Sirraj, a leading activist in the Sudanese Professionals’ Association says thousands of people celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Tuesday.Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa, a spokesman for the SPA, said the military’s decision on Eid was an effort to keep people in their homes after Monday’s “massacre.”Sirraj says people took to the streets to call for toppling the generals, who themselves ousted longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir in April.The U.N.
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