{"id":20080345,"date":"2024-04-07T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20080345"},"modified":"2024-04-07T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T13:53:55","slug":"five-years-after-al-bashir-overthrow-flame-of-sudan-revolution-will-not-be-extinguished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/five-years-after-al-bashir-overthrow-flame-of-sudan-revolution-will-not-be-extinguished","title":{"rendered":"Five years after Al Bashir overthrow, \u2018flame of Sudan revolution will not be extinguished\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Report: Suleiman Siri<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

April 6, marking five years after the revolutionary sit-in was set up in front of the Central Command of the Sudanese Armed Forces in downtown Khartoum in 2019, did not pass as an ordinary day for the Sudanese. Social media activists called for everyone to interact through their pages, under the slogan \u201cThis Country Belongs to Us\u201d on Saturday at 19:00 Sudanese time, \u201cto have a digital protest march that circumnavigates the whole world\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the invitation, the organisers of the campaign wanted to send a message saying that \u201cthe month of April remains in the Sudanese conscience\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They consider the anniversary of the setting up of the sit-in in front of the Army Command on April 6, 2019<\/a>, followed by the ousting of President Omar Al Bashir<\/a> five days later \u201can extension of the Sudanese uprising of April 6, 1985<\/a> [against President Jaafar El Nimeiri] and a source of inspiration for the new generation of revolutionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an expression of adherence to the peacefulness of the revolution and a rejection of violence and the ways in which totalitarian and military regimes deal with the right of the people to express their rights. We will return to the slogan of the revolution: freedom, peace, and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth leader Abubakr Feisal told Radio Dabanga that \u201cthe aim of circulating the post \u2018This country belongs to us\u2019 accompanied by the hashtag \u2018April 6 the Great\u2019 is a reminder that the flame of the revolution will not be extinguished\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the difficulty of organising marches on April 6, as has been the custom in recent years, \u201cwe decided to launch a \u2018million ambassadors campaign\u2019, in which all revolutionaries would participate with the hashtag \u2018April 6 the Great\u2019 and a picture of the Atbara train\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 30, 1989, Lt Gen Omar Al Bashir seized power in a military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, heralding 30 years of dictatorship that would last until his own overthrow, again by a military coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, in 2019<\/a>, which led to the formation of a civilian government<\/a> in September 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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