The streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum were packed with protesters on Saturday morning, with protesters raising anti-military slogans and waving anti-coup banners.
“No to military rule, yes to civilian rule,” the protesters shouted in a video posted on social media.
At least three people were shot dead by the military, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD), which is affiliated with the civilian component of the now dissolved sovereign council.
The CCSD said in a post on Twitter that one person was shot in the head and the other in the stomach.
The CCSD also said that at least 100 others were injured during the protests when the army opened fire and tear gas shells at protesters in several areas across the country to disperse the crowd.
The SPA is calling for the restoration of the country’s transitional civilian government and calling on protesters to join a “million-man march” against the military takeover.
“We are here to tell the world that we will not accept any military intervention to decide the fate of our country,” one protester said on Saturday.
Another protester said, “This country should be ruled by a civilian government. Military leaders should not be involved in any political decision. They are here to protect the country and its people.”
According to the CCSD, a total of 13 people have been killed and 140 others injured in the protests since the military takeover.
protesters on saturday Asked Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to resign.
The October 25 coup follows months of rising tension in the country, where military and civilian groups have shared power in the years since Bashir’s ouster. Since 2019, Sudan was ruled by a volatile coalition between the two.
That all changed on Monday when the military effectively dissolved the power-sharing Sovereign Council and the Transitional Government, and temporarily took Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok into custody.
Burhan said on Monday that the settlement with civilian members of the country’s Transitional Sovereign Council “became a conflict” over the past two years, posing a “threat to peace and unity” in Sudan.
Several articles of the constitution have been suspended and state governors have been removed.
Global leaders have condemned the coup, with the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the African Union and the United Nations urging all stakeholders to return to the country’s democratic transition process.
On Friday, US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman warned against the use of violence against protesters.
“The Sudanese people should be allowed to protest peacefully this weekend, and the United States will be watching closely,” Feltman said.
CNN’s Cara Fox contributed reporting.
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