{"id":184903,"date":"2014-07-01T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-s-salvation-revolution-worst-experience-of-authoritarian-rule\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:33:00","slug":"sudan-s-salvation-revolution-worst-experience-of-authoritarian-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-salvation-revolution-worst-experience-of-authoritarian-rule","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Salvation Revolution \u2018worst experience of authoritarian rule\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the 25<sup>th<\/sup> commemoration of the military coup, led by Col. Omar Al Bashir on 30 June 1989, Sudanese opposition leaders and activists described the period as the &ldquo;worst experience of authoritarian rule in the history of contemporary Sudan&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;South Sudan seceded, and in Darfur, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile civil wars broke out. Those areas witnessed horrrendous acts of murder, rape, looting, and huge displacement,&rdquo; a politician who asked to remain anonymous, told Radio Dabanga on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the era of &ldquo;Al Bashir&rsquo;s Salvation regime&rdquo; witnessed the country&#39;s economic and financial collapse, the destruction of the public education and the civil service systems, and ethnic, tribal, and regional polarisation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The regime has monopolised political power, the market, economic investment opportunities, and tailored the Sudanese laws to meet the interests of the ruling party and its affiliates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly 25 years ago on Monday,&nbsp;Col. Omar Hassan Al Bashir swept to power in Sudan at the&nbsp;head of a bloodless military coup. 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Omar Al Bashir on 30 June 1989, Sudanese opposition leaders and activists described the period as the \u201cworst experience of authoritarian rule in the history of contemporary Sudan\u201d. \u201cSouth Sudan seceded, and in Darfur, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile civil wars broke out. Those areas witnessed horrrendous acts of murder, rape, looting, and huge displacement,\u201d a politician who asked to remain anonymous, told Radio Dabanga on Monday. He stressed that the era of \u201cAl Bashir\u2019s Salvation regime\u201d witnessed the country&#8217;s economic and financial collapse, the destruction of the public education and the civil service systems, and ethnic, tribal, and regional polarisation. \u201cThe regime has monopolised political power, the market, economic investment opportunities, and tailored the Sudanese laws to meet the interests of the ruling party and its affiliates.\u201d Exactly 25 years ago on Monday,\u00a0Col. Omar Hassan Al Bashir swept to power in Sudan at the\u00a0head of a bloodless military coup. Launched by a group of Islamist military officers against then\u00a0Prime Minister El Sadig El Mahdi, the coup was dubbed the \u201cSalvation Revolution\u201d by the new government and its supporters.File photo: Supporters of the new president, Omar Al Bashir, a week after the 1989 coup (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudan&#039;s Salvation Revolution \u2018worst experience of authoritarian rule\u2019 - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-s-salvation-revolution-worst-experience-of-authoritarian-rule\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudan&#039;s Salvation Revolution \u2018worst experience of authoritarian rule\u2019 - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the occasion of the 25th commemoration of the military coup, led by Col. 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