Opinion: In Sudan’s revolution, the hardest part comes next
Sudanese women during a demonstration outside the army headquarters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Friday. By Amir Ahmad Nasr April 12 at 6:32 PM Amir Ahmad Nasr is an exiled Sudanese Canadian artist and the author of the memoir “My Isl@m: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind — and Doubt Freed My Soul.”
On April 6, responding to calls for disciplined mobilization by the Sudanese Professionals Association and the courageous youth who came of age under Bashir’s brutal rule, huge jubilant crowds that some are calling the largest in Sudan’s modern history defiantly showed up for a massive sit-in at the army headquarters in Khartoum, in a popular decentralized protest movement reminiscent of Tahrir Square and the 2011 Arab uprisings.
The revolt, unprecedented in its scale, has arrived in Khartoum, the stronghold of the regime, and there’s no going back. The demonstrators in Khartoum are making it clear that they will never accept a military government under any circumstances. Both the ministries of defense and interior will have to recognize the authority of a new civilian government. If the past four months have proved anything, it is that the Sudanese Professionals Association is astonishingly capable of mobilizing the masses and leading change.
Since seizing power in a military coup in 1989, Bashir and his loyalists have steadily sucked the life out of once vibrant Sudanese regions, states and cities, enriching themselves and leaving behind a trail of misery and destruction.
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