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Wednesday 10 april 2019
Sudanese activists: 14 more killed in clashes with police

By SAMY MAGDY avoid such an outcome,"
Associated Press they said.
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese Sarah Abdel-Jaleel, spokes-
security forces tried again woman for the Sudanese
to break up an anti-gov- Professionals Association,
ernment sit-in outside mili- said the new clashes erupt-
tary headquarters in the ed early on Tuesday be-
capital, Khartoum, killing at tween security forces and
least 14 people Tuesday, protesters who have been
activists behind the dem- camping out in front of the
onstration said. military complex in Khar-
The deaths brought the to- toum for the past four days.
tal number of fatalities in The police used tear gas,
the sit-in since the weekend rubber bullets and live fire
to 22, including five soldiers, to try to disperse the pro-
according to the activists. testers, according to Ab-
The demonstration is the lat- del-Jaleel's union, which is
est in nearly four months of spearheading the demon-
anti-government protests strations. It was the second
that have plunged Sudan time security forced failed
into its worst crisis in years. to break up the sit-in pro-
What initially erupted late tests, which has grown into
last year as rallies against a one of the biggest rallies in
spiraling economy quickly the current wave of unrest.
escalated into calls for an But a crack seemed to be
end to President Omar al- emerging among the Su-
Bashir's 30-year rule. A Sudanese soldier protects protesters at a demonstration near the military headquarters, Tues- danese authorities and the
On Monday, for the first day, April 9, 2019, in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. military as to how to handle
time, leaders of the pro- Associated Press the protests.
tests called on the military's Online video footage cir-
leadership to abandon al- al-Shami, a spokesman for pushed out of the area sur- and the U.S. backed the culating Tuesday showed
Bashir and join their call for the military, said the military rounding the armed forces' protesters' demands, urg- some Sudanese troops
change. And on Tuesday, has nothing to do with po- headquarters and this was ing Sudanese authorities to seeking to protect the
they invited military leaders litical matters and authori- done smoothly without sig- "deliver a credible plan" for protesters and guarding
to meet with their represen- ties ordered the protest to nificant causalities," he said political transition. the entrance to the sit-in
tatives to "discuss arrange- be broken up. in comments broadcast on "Failing to do so risks caus- area. Heavy gunfire can
ments for a transition" in "This sit-in ... could drag TV. ing greater instability. The be heard as protesters seek
Sudan. the country into chaos. In a joint statement on Sudanese leadership has cover from the descending
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Khalifa ... All demonstrators were Tuesday, Norway, the U.K. a grave responsibility to security forces. q

Iranian lawmakers convene with chants of 'Death to America'

prompt retaliation and vened for a parliament ses- ognized as a right" for Iran
make it harder for Ameri- sion marking the National to respond. The hard-line
cans to work with allies in Day of the Revolutionary Kayhan newspaper said it
the region. Guard, which follows the gave Iranians "permission"
Iran's Supreme National Se- lunar calendar. This year it to kill American military per-
curity Council immediately coincides with the April 9 sonnel.
responded by designating holiday known as Nuclear State-owned IRAN daily
the U.S. Central Command, Day. Parliament Speaker went a step further, saying
also known as CENTCOM, Ali Larijani denounced the the U.S. move was a "desig-
and all its forces as terror- U.S. decision as the "climax nation of the entire Iranian
ist, and labeling the U.S. a of stupidity and ignorance." nation" as terrorist.
"supporter of terrorism." Supreme National Security The pro-reform Shargh dai-
It was the first time the Council's spokesman, Kei- ly described it as "the last
United States has desig- van Khosravi, said that go- card" of President Donald
nated an entity of another ing forward, "any unusual Trump against Iran.Trump
In this Feb. 3, 2019 file photo, an Iranian clergyman looks at government as a terror- move by American forces last year pulled America
domestically built surface to surface missiles displayed by the
Revolutionary Guard in a military show marking the 40th an- ist organization, placing a in the region will be per- out of the 2015 nuclear
niversary of the Islamic Revolution, at Imam Khomeini Grand group with vast economic ceived as the behavior by deal between Iran and
Mosque in Tehran, Iran. resources that answers only a terrorist group." He did world powers and re-im-
Associated Press to Iran's supreme leader not elaborate. posed sanctions on the
in the same category as Iranian newspapers carried country, mainly targeting
By NASSER KARIMI to designate Iran's elite al-Qaida and the Islamic reports of the U.S. move Iran's vital oil sector.
Associated Press paramilitary Revolutionary State group. along with bellicose com- Marking Iran's Nuclear
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Chant- Guard a foreign terrorist or- In Tehran, the semi-official mentary on their front pag- Day, President Hassan Rou-
ing "Death to America," Ira- ganization. Fars news agency said es. hani on Tuesday unveiled
nian lawmakers convened The U.S. move was an un- many of the lawmakers The Guard-affiliated Javan dozens of unspecified
an open session of parlia- precedented declaration wore the uniform of the daily said any attack on "achievements" in nuclear
ment Tuesday following against a foreign gov- guard in a show of support Revolutionary Guard bases technology, something he
the White House's decision ernment, one that could for the force as they con- and facilities will be "rec- does every year.q