Sudan fuel protests: '50 shot dead'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Security forces in Sudan have shot dead at least 50 people in days of protests over fuel subsidy cuts, human rights groups have said.

Police fired tear gas to disperse more protesters on Friday, witnesses have told the BBC.

Officials say fewer than 29 people have died, and they insist that the subsidy was unaffordable.
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The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies and Amnesty International say people have been killed by gun shots to the chest or head, citing witnesses, relatives, doctors and journalists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24297347

[Igel]

1. Hard to say much.

We objected in Libya. Ooh, that worked out just swell.

We protested over that happening in Syria. And now we're sort of stuck with that mess and with the claim that the present is either all somebody else's fault or better than the status quo would have been.

We didn't say much about Bahrain. Principle, don't you know--non-interference in something or other.

And when Mubarak's folk shot people we were upset. But when al-Sisi's folk shoot people, we sit and say, "Well, it's better than democracy that doesn't achieve our goals."


At this point an oppressive government shoots people and we have to stop and ponder the moral and ideological Gordian knot we've tied ourselves in, a knot that would make a cartoon yogi in full form blush for its intractability and complexity. Thing is, to cut the knot would be to cut ourself off at the knees. To which I can only say, "Ni!"