SUDAN: South Sudan Muslims Appeal To Fellow Muslims in Khartoum To Stop Killing
Military keeping vigilant in Streets of Khartoum (Image Courtesy
The South Sudanese Muslim Community are appealing to fellow Muslims in Khartoum, Sudan to stop killing one another. According to a Don Bosco Radio report, Ahmed Ali Ahmed felt sorry for the tragedy happening in Khartoum during the prayers held at Tonj Freedom Square, urging the Government in Khartoum (Sudan) to resolve the problem and rescue civilians in the country.
Ali reiterated that Eid al Fitr ended peacefully and that all believers must continue with the spirit of Ramadan.
Similarly Ali Osman urges the Government in Khartoum to calm down the situation for the progress of the country, adding that they are not happy about what happened on 3rd of June in Khartoum.
According to media reports, over 100 Sudanese protesters are feared killed as Sudanese military forces tried to disperse protesters in the capital city of Khartoum. By Wednesday, 5 May, reports by the Sudan Doctors Central Committee indicated that 40 bodies had been pulled from the Nile River after members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan’s main militia, backed by a large presence of security forces, violently dispersed the Khartoum sit-in during the early hours of Monday morning.
It is reported that after an exhaustive inventory at hospitals and mortuaries, the doctors on Wednesday confirmed the death toll at 100, but feared that the number could rise as many people are still listed as ‘missing’ by family and relatives.
The troops burned the encampments, beat whoever they did not kill, and blockaded roads and hospitals so that medical support could not reach the wounded and the dying. Meanwhile, there are reports of rape and pillage, and that bodies of the executed are floating in River Nile.
The country was plunged into a communications blackout, with sporadic access to the internet which was was filled with messages of desperation as faces of their missing loved ones were being circulated on social media.
Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC), which assumed power when the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir in April after three decades in office said on Monday that criminal elements near the protest site were targeted in a raid by security forces.
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By AMECEA Online News Correspondent
