Civil Disobedience in Sudan Nov. 27-29

Nov.27.2016 was the first day of the civil disobedience in Sudan. Groups of activists in the social media mainly the Facebook, Twitter, WahatsApp beside websites such as alrakoba.net and sudaneseonline.com, groups of activists started calling for three days strike 27-29 Nov.2016. the first day was a success were the Sudanese people in Khartoum and other cities such as Wad Medani and Atbara just stayed at home, mainly workers in private sectors and businesses and some of the workers in public sectors, many private schools and universities gave three days off for workers and students to participate in the strike. Reports from press said the banks in Khartoum have only done less than 20% of their routine daily transactions, Khartoum Financial centre ( stock market) reported a loss 280 million USD in the first day. Sudanese opposition chose the strike to void similar mass killing like the one that took place in Sep. 2013 demonstration, as more than 300 protesters were shoot dead by government-run militia, this government militia is known as People’s Security service which is a secret organization that is completely made of Muslim brotherhood members or what is called in Sudan Islamic movement. The victims of mass killing operation of Sep. 2013 or their families did not find justice until today as the Islamic government of Khartoum is denying its responsibility about that and blamed militant oppositions groups in Darfur, Nuba mountains and South Blue Nile, everyone knows that those groups are only active in the regions mentioned before but not in Khartoum were the mass killing took place. And their role is mainly to defend the Sudanese there i.e. in Darfur, Nuba mountains and South blue Nile from government offensive air strikes and land troops and Janjaweed militia attacks. Sudanese armed opposition movements mainly use their courage in that sincere human effort where they function in bad conditions, lack of logistics and absence of regional or international support. The presences of African Union and UN peace keeping forces and international human organizations has been useless as Khartoum regime controls their activities and limits their role in ways that enables it to practice genocide. That’s beside the known brutality of government against peaceful demonstrators resulted in making peaceful opposition groups go to the choice of Civil Disobedience which was tried before in the overthrowing of militarily regime in Oct 1964 and in Mar-Apr 1985 and succeeded in bringing democratic governments through public elections. Now the chance of trade unions strikes is not in consideration because the ruling Islamic military regime dismissed trade union activists and leaders from work in public sectors such as Sudan Railways, River Transport, public works, educations and health sectors and forced private institution to dismiss trade union activists and any political party members specially communists, this dismissal started immediately after the Islamic pro coup Jun 30. 1989 and is still on. The same happened in the army and police forces any Sudanese who is not a member or a supporter of Islamic movement was dismissed. Oppositions groups are hoping for the occurrence of a crackdown in the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Police Force to stop the secret Islamic militia “People’s Security “ and the Janjawid from demonstrators mass killing. Opposition military forces of the revolutionary Darfurians, SPLA in Nuba mountains and in South Blue Nile are located in remote places too far from big urban centers and Khartoum, lack of logistics prevents them from deploying forces to protect peaceful demonstrators. International support is badly needed by now to stop government from achieving brutal massacres as what happened in Sep. 2013, international silence about the mass killing of 300 civilians in the streets of Khartoum was met with deep frustrations and as the Sudanese people found themselves alone in front of ISIS like brutality.