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| Hundreds of protesters tear-gassed in Sudan | ||
| 2012-06-30 | ||
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters outside an opposition party mosque yesterday, the 14th day of anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, a witness said.
After the tear gas and an unknown number of arrests, demonstrators burned tires and threw stones at police before running for cover, the witness said. Demonstrators planned major protests for yesterday and today, the 23rd anniversary of a coup by After Bashir announced austerity measures, including tax hikes and an end to cheap fuel, the protests spread to include a cross-section of people in numerous locations throughout the capital and other parts of Sudan. Demonstrators, typically in groups of 100 or 200, have burned tires, thrown stones and blocked roads in a call for regime change which has almost universally been met by police tear gas. Bashir, suggesting that someone was behind the disturbances, has called them small-scale and not comparable to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere. He maintains that he himself is popular.
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| Posted by:Steve White |