“I hope that one day soon Khartoum will be known as a place of poetry and beauty, not bloodshed and oppression.”
For years I have felt great apprehension and uneasiness whenever I visited Sudan, my home country. Not this time.
During almost three decades in power he had unleashed untold suffering in all corners of the country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court on multiple counts of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. “Sing Khartoum sing/ the mother of loved ones, we are your fruits/ in the paths of nights, we are your days/before your waiting prolonged/ we have arrived …/ we arrived as you embraced us.”
Between April 6 and 11, 26 people were killed at the sit-in opposite the military headquarters in Khartoum. What started as a peaceful protest quickly deteriorated into bloodshed as security officers tried to disperse the people.
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