{"id":39603,"date":"2019-06-03T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39603"},"modified":"2019-06-03T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:23:47","slug":"military-forces-violently-break-up-sudan-protests-in-khartoum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39603","title":{"rendered":"Military forces violently break up Sudan protests in Khartoum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"58.9481707317\">\n<p><span>Sudan&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><span>Transitional\u00a0<\/span><span>Military Council<\/span><span>\u00a0(TMC)\u00a0<span>violently broke up a sit-in demonstration in Khartoum at dawn on Monday and the body<\/span>\u00a0refuses to give in to protesters&#8217; demand<span><span>, weeks after<span>\u00a0the removal of\u00a0<span>longtime leader<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/omar-bashir.html\">Omar al-Bashir<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>The TMC have rejected calls to\u00a0hand over power to a civilian-led government and wants to rule for an interim period of up to two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>Calls to protect the revolution have been the rallying cry of protesters in recent weeks after months of demonstrations led to the overthrow of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/omar-bashir.html\">al-Bashir<\/a>\u00a0<span>in April in a military coup.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The TMC had said that the protest outside the army headquarters was a threat to the safety and security of the Sudanese people.<\/p>\n<p>One demonstrator said the military blocked the exits of the sit-in area before opening fire to disperse protesters. Tents where demonstrators had been camping were burned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>A medical group linked to\u00a0protesters,\u00a0The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors,<\/span><span>\u00a0said at least nine people were killed and several wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Protesters said despite the violence they would remain on the streets until those who had supported al-Bashir gave up power as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom and Change alliance, the group that is leading the protest movement\u00a0has been negotiating with the TMC regarding a political transition, but talks have stalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s\u00a0Transitional\u00a0Military Council\u00a0(TMC)\u00a0violently broke up a sit-in demonstration in Khartoum at dawn on Monday and the body\u00a0refuses to give in to protesters&#8217; demand, weeks after\u00a0the removal of\u00a0longtime leader\u00a0Omar al-Bashir. The TMC have rejected calls to\u00a0hand over power to a civilian-led government and wants to rule for an interim period of up to two years.\u00a0 Calls to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}