{"id":174746,"date":"2019-04-21T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/el-tayyar-editor-al-bashir-ordered-massacre-before-coup\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T14:00:00","slug":"el-tayyar-editor-al-bashir-ordered-massacre-before-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/el-tayyar-editor-al-bashir-ordered-massacre-before-coup","title":{"rendered":"El Tayyar editor: \u2018Al Bashir ordered massacre before coup\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a senior Sudanese journalist, on the day before he was overthrown by a military coup, ousted President Omar Al Bashir ordered the military to disperse the sit-in <\/strong>in front of the General Command of the <\/strong>Sudan <\/strong>Armed Force<\/strong>s<\/strong> by force, authorising them “to kill 30-50 per cent of the people”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to protesters in front of the General Command of the Sudan Armed Forces on Thursday evening (the sit-in has been sustained since April 6), Osman Mirghani, Editor-in-chief of El Tayya<\/em>r newspaper, said that the leaders of the Interim Military Council have told him that a day before the decision to oust Al Bashir, the president said to them: “Of course you all know that we follow the Maliki doctrine<\/a> which allows a leader to kill 30 per cent of his people, and some hardliners even say 50 per cent”.<\/p>\n

He explained that Al Bashir concluded his speech by telling the security chiefs: “You have 48 hours to get rid of everyone in front of the General Command.”<\/p>\n

Mirghani added that it was at that moment the leaders of the junta decided that Al Bashir needed to be ousted.<\/p>\n

Coup<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nationwide protests sparked by rising bread prices and fuel and cash crises, began on mid-December 2018 and culminated in a public convergence under the stewardship of the the Declaration of Freedom and Change<\/a>, a broad coalition of opposition parties including the Sudanese Professionals Association, on the the General Command of the Sudan Armed Forces in Khartoum on April 6.<\/p>\n

On April 11, Al Bashir was ousted by a military coup<\/a>, that, after initial jockeying for power within the military<\/a>, resulted in the current Interim Military Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The protests and the sit-ins have continued throughout the country. The forces of freedom and change in Sudan, as well as several voices from the international community Including the USA<\/a> and European Union<\/a>, have expressed their insistence that the Interim Military Council established after the overthrow of the Al Bashir regime, urgently transfer power to an interim civilian government.<\/p>\n

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