Sudanese in London demonstrate against ‘Khartoum regime’

Sudanese living in Great Britain organised a sit-in in London against the “Khartoum regime” on Saturday. They handed a memorandum to British Prime Minister David Cameron, demanding the formation of an independent inquiry on the role of British companies in supplying Sudan with arms and trainings of the Sudanese security forces. One of the demonstrators told Radio Dabanga that the Sudanese protested against the abuses and crimes committed by Al Bashir’s regime, the mass murders, rapes, and arrests of unarmed civilians in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, and the Angasana in the Blue Nile, as well as the targeting of Sudanese women and insulting their dignity in “ridiculous by-laws”. The demonstrators in London also condemned the use of excessive violence against peaceful demonstrators in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities in September, and against the people in the north of Sudan, affected by the construction of dams. Apart from the demand to investigate the role of British companies in the armed conflicts in Sudan, the protesters urged the British government to pressure the Sudanese regime to take the International Criminal Court serious and hand over the indicted Sudanese to the Hague. File photo: A Sudanese shows bullet casings found after a demonstration in Khartoum, September 2013 (Radio Dabanga)