With rumours of Russian military and PMC activity in Sudan, here's a throwback to 2008, when a MiG-29F fighter jet was shot down in Khartoum by Justice and Equality Movement rebels. Surprisingly, the pilot was a Russian national. (H/t @EihabAD). https://www.sudantribune.com/Russia-says-fighter-pilot-shot,27350 …
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And once again, Sudanese security forces are firing tear gas at a medical facility. Two weeks ago it was the Omdurman Teaching Hospital (https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1083143537200451584 …), today it is the Elrazi University's Education Hospital.https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1088433186886037504 …
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Footage of yesterday shows how a white pick-up truck, apparently belonging to Sudanese security forces, drives over a small group of protesters.pic.twitter.com/f2PwhSEosC
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Used tear-gas canisters are used to write a popular anti-government slogan “تسقط بس” (“It must fall and nothing less”), referring to the Bashir.pic.twitter.com/67X39ykYNo
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Slightly more alluring translation of “تسقط بس” is “Just fall, that is all”, as used in this report by
@declanwalsh, which discusses Babiker Salama, a 27-year-old doctor who died after he was apparently hit in his upper torso by shotgun pallets on 17 Jan.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/world/africa/sudan-protests-omar-hassan-al-bashir.html …Show this thread -
“NISS found the thatcher [pick-up truck] that ran over the mourners in front of the martyr's house.” (Activists ridiculing a statement of a Sudanese government spokesperson who claimed that Babiker had been shot by a women who pulled a pistol from her purse.)pic.twitter.com/JV2LxQxmT7
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(Some context for the photo above: activists are referring to a recent incident where, reportedly, a NISS pick-up truck ran over a group of people that were demonstrating near the house of a student that was allegedly killed during the protests.)
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Sudanese activists use fired tear gas canisters as a pen case, motorbike handle bar, and as a plant pot. (Similar usage seen before in Gaza and the West Bank: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2441997/Palestinian-gardener-uses-spent-tear-gas-canisters-PLANT-POTS.html ….)pic.twitter.com/ItZ2v0gJai
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A protestor killed with a bullet in the headpic.twitter.com/imlCtrMfNg
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