Shortly after returning from the Gulf tour, Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan repressed Sudan’s democratic movement in the blood. The military has distinguished itself by providing valuable services to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), spearheading counter-revolutions in the region.

After firing on demonstrators in central Khartoum, at the cost of about thirty dead and hundreds wounded, General Burhan gave a statement on national television. The agreement painfully negotiated between the military and the protesters is canceled. In the place of the emerging civil transition, the Sudanese army will hold elections “within nine months”.

An announcement that sounded like the end of the Sudanese revolution, which started last December by protests against the expensive cost of living. Even if the protest movement calls for the fight to continue, repression may deter Sudanese from returning to the streets.

Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, 59, was totally unknown before being appointed to head the Transitional Military Council on April 12. The army had ousted the old president Omar al-Bashir. He was first general who presided over the case, but he was considered to be too compromised with the old regime, and continued to brave the curfew.

Sudanese volunteers in Yemen

His latest feat was to send troops to Yemen to fight the Houthi rebels. Why was a war waged outside the Sudanese borders? An elevator return for the Saudi and UAE sponsors, as they had been fighting Houthi rebels, backed by the Iranian rival. Since Saudi Arabia bombed from the air and the UAE could not provide enough troops on the ground, it was necessary to find cannon fodder elsewhere.

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