Sudanese civilian forces receive threats of torture following army advance in Bahri
Persons dressed in Military fatigue, threaten civilian groups in Bahri's Shandi Station, bringing alive memories of infamous practices during the defunct regime era.
Khartoum: Altaghyeer
Two soldiers in Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attire appeared in a video footage threatening civil forces to be detained in a notorious detention place in Kober neighborhood, Bahri city.
'This is the security organ's detention center which you, the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC), know very well', one of the armed men said referring to where the civil activists were arrested and tortured during the regime of dictator Omer al-Bashir.
'This is the place of refrigerators hey you FFC', he added threatening them they will be taken where very cold temperature is used to torment the regime political opponents.
Al-Bashir regime (1989-2019) was known for brutal crackdown on civil activists and political opponents exploiting the security services in terrorizing them through untold physical and psychological torture.
The FFC has been among the vanguards of the December 2018-April 2019 Revolution which succeeded in toppling al-Bashir's regime.
In another incident a video circulated on the social media showed armed men, in probably General Security Service's uniforms, ridiculing murals of the Revolution's martyrs and slogans on the walls opposite the SAF General Command building where military men severely attacked the protesters' sit-in in June 2019.
The incidents were widely condemned by public figures, revolutionists and activists who responded by organizing a social media campaign affirming that the December Revolution will survive.
Last Friday, SAF succeeded in breaking the Rapid Support Forces' siege on its General Command in centeral Khartoum and the Signal Corps in Bahri city.
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