Fuel Protests Crushed

The Protests that occured recently have been crushed by the Sudanese dictatorship.

Opposition political parties had planned a demonstration against a rise in fuel prices.

In the last week, the Sudanese government have arrested dozens of opposition figures.

This was a show of force from all arms of Sudan’s security forces - riot police with their shields and teargas canisters, the army with guns, and everywhere plain-clothes security officers.

Mounting opposition

On the face of it, this protest was about a recent rise in fuel prices.

But it is also the frontline of an increasingly bitter struggle between the Khartoum government and an alliance of opposition political parties.

Several demonstrations in the last few weeks have been banned and then violently disrupted.

>>What was once about fuel has turned into a question of freedom of expression.<<

Well at least they used teargas this time. In the past they sometimes spilled hot boiling water and sizzling cooking oil from the back of trucks and onto the protesting crowd. Great improvement huh? :p

Hat tip: Sudan Watch

UPDATE: More and more protests are planned. This is going to get worse. The past one was crushed and this latest peacefull one was also crushed. Some innocent non-rioting civilians were brutally beaten up together with the rioters.

UPDATE: I was laughing so hard when I read the last parts of this article.

President Omar el-Bashir strongly criticized the demonstration, saying that “the spoilers and agents are exploiting freedom and democracy.”

Addressing a mass rally in the eastern city of Kassala on Wednesday evening, el-Bashir said that raising prices was aimed at building the country.

LOOOL!