Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Bread, freedom, social justice
Khartoum, rise up now!
We won't be ruled by the Kafouri thieves
I'm Abdallah Mahdi
an activist in the Girifna movement
who seek to topple the ruling National Congress Party
by peaceful means.
The movement was created in October 2009
by university students from across Sudan.
Our aim was to topple the National Salvation regime
which has ruled Sudan
since the military coup in 1989.
I'm Safaa Abdallah from Khartoum
I'm originally from Darfur and I live in Cairo.
I'm a human rights activist and a political activist.
Even before the secession of South Sudan
my activism began to take on a different dimension.
I began to give speeches to my fellow students.
The Sudanese state
closed universities three times that year
to stamp out the demonstrations.
And in fact half of Sudan's universities remain closed
including some of the biggest universities in the country.
Closed by law.
The movement demands freedom
equality, an end to the war
and the mismanagement of Sudan's economy.
Citizens are simply tired that there's been constant war
for the last 30 years
because of mismanagement by the people clinging to power.
Things have of course got worse
since the arrival of the Islamist state.
There began to be outright repression in the name of religion,
manipulation of religion,
commercialisation of religion
and more oppression of the people.
They incite citizens against their fellow citizens,
they arm them
and terrify them into thinking
that they'll be massacred
if they don't massacre other people first
just like what's happening in Darfur
where they are turning tribes against other tribes
by telling them: this revolution is against you
when it's actually a revolution against the government,
against oppression and marginalisation
The student protests happening at the moment
and the unrest in various regions
are likely to continue throughout the coming period
and on June 30th
we expect a bigger and more organised turnout
because political parties have been calling for it
through the available media.
There are lots of calls for protests on that day
and we hope the protests will continue.
I call upon every Sudanese citizen
to go out into the streets and demonstrate
and show their solidarity with the intifada which is happening in the streets of Sudan.
29 June
'We've risen up and there's no going back'
Subtitles by the Amara.org community