The ObserverThe military regime in Sudan has launched a new wave of arrests and violent intimidation in an effort to undermine opposition plans for a widespread campaign of civil disobedience. Pro-reform groups have warned of a “frenzied campaign launched by the military junta to arrest political activists and revolutionaries” this weekend ahead of a general strike yesterday. Professionals, including bankers, doctors, air traffic control staff, pilots, electrical engineers and economists, have been targeted by intelligence services in what the Sudanese Professionals Association, one of the main opposition groups, said was an “obvious attempt” to break the strike. However, scores more arrests and detentions have gone unreported, opposition groups in Khartoum said. “The problem is that the figurehead of the regime was removed, but the regime remained in place.

Source: Taipei Times June 09, 2019 15:56 UTC