The Khartoum Regime is Shooting and Arresting Medical Personnel
Eric Reeves | January 5, 2019 | https://wp.me/p45rOG-2mb
In what would be a shocking move by any other brutal tyranny, the security officials of Omar al-Bashir’s Khartoum regime have begun a calculated campaign to obstruct medical care to protesters throughout the country—through arrests and even deliberate, targeted shootings of medical personnel. The hideous reality is brilliantly captured in a four-minute video sequences put together by Channel 4 New (UK):
https://www.channel4.com/news/sudans-opposition-calls-for-more-protests-against-omar-al-bashir
Although this news has rocketed around Sudanese news and social media, it has received far too little international attention…or condemnation. The nature and logic of the tactics are clear, as explained by a Sudanese trauma surgeon who speaks bluntly (concealed in shadows for his own protection):
“The majority of cases I’ve seen were head wounds, chest wounds—deadly shots.”
“Medical professionals have been at the forefront of protests.”
“The regime is cracking down on medics for treating injured demonstrators.”
Still photo from video clip: four doctors being arrested on Hospital Street in Khartoum, December 31, 2018
“More than 20 medics I know personally have been arrested and it’s because we’re the first line of defense. Wounded protestors end up in hospital…so take you out the doctors, you cripple the protests.”
“Three of my own colleagues turned up wounded by live ammunition.”
Why in the face of such atrocities is the international community not forthright in its condemnation?
Stills from the Channel 4 News video:
