The World Should Not Fail Sudan
A massacre of protesters demands a coordinated international response.
Don’t let them down.
Photographer: Ashraf Shayzly/AFP
Hope for democracy in Sudan hangs by a thread. On Monday, the generals running what is meant to be an interim administration unleashed paramilitary forces on a peaceful sit-in in Khartoum, killing at least 60 people. Crackdowns in other parts of the country increased the toll.
The generals announced they were scrapping agreements for a transition to democracy that had been negotiated with the protesters who brought down the dictator Omar al-Bashir in April. Instead, the Transitional Military Council has said it plans to hold elections within nine months. Monday’s brutal attack shows that the generals can’t be trusted to oversee this process.