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Don’tAbandon Sudan
The U.S.and EU should put the generals on notice and demand justice for murderedprotesters
Hopefor democracy in Sudan hangs by a thread. On June 3,the generals running what’smeant to be an interim administrationunleashed paramilitary forces on apeaceful sit-inin Khartoum, killing at least 60 people. Crackdowns inotherparts of the country increased the toll.The generals announced they werescrapping agreementsfor a transition to democracy that had been negotiatedwiththe protesters who brought down dictator Omar al-Bashirin April. Instead,the Transitional Military Council has saidit plans to hold elections withinnine months. The brutalattack shows that the generals can’t be trusted tooverseethis process.The world has seen this movie before. The killingsinKhartoum may not have matched the scale of the 2013 massacreof protesters inCairo, which likely claimed more than1,000 lives, but the parallels are all tooclear: Another militaryelite is using deadly force to try to take back thepoliticalspace won by a pro-democracy movement.U.S. National Security AdviserJohn Bolton was right tocondemn the killings as “abhorrent.” China and Russiahaveblocked an attempt to denounce them at the United NationsSecurityCouncil—but the U.S. and the European Union canstill coordinate efforts to getSudan’s transition to democracyback on track.
