Eyewitness in Sudan reveals military is committing sexual atrocities to disperse demonstrators sitting outside the army headquarters in Khartoum and demanding power transition to a civilian government.
A women’s rights campaigner and activist, Nahid Jabrallah, said several rape cases of young Sudanese men and women have been lately reported and these are committed by the security forces while trying to clear the protesters.
Talking to DW Jabrallah said she had spoken to other eyewitnesses who confirmed forty dead bodies of mostly women have been recovered from the River Nile.
Meanwhile, streets of Khartoum, a city of about two million people, were mostly deserted on Sunday amid a mass general strike though emergency medical staff was exempted from it. Four more people have been reported killed in the recent violence and with this the total toll reaches 118.
Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said one of the victims were 20-year-old and was killed due to direct gunshot on the chest by the Rapid Support Forces, also called as Janjaweed and it supports the government.
The committee added two men died after being beaten and stabbed by the RSF.
According to Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) the civil disobedience campaign will not come to an end until power is handed over to a civilian government.
SPA is a body that initially led protests against former leader Omar al-Bashir, who was deposed in a military coup following mass protests.
Following the oust of Bashir the military council agreed transition of power to democracy in a period of three years, but protesters demanded for a much earliest handover of control to a civilian government.
