{"id":63551,"date":"2019-04-15T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=63551"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:12:14","slug":"sudan-forces-attempt-to-break-up-sit-in-outside-army-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/sudan-forces-attempt-to-break-up-sit-in-outside-army-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan forces attempt to break up sit-in outside army HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reportedly attempted on Monday to break up a sit-in staged by protesters outside the army headquarters in Khartoum.<\/h2>\n<p>Military bulldozers moved to remove roadblocks erected by protesters near the headquarters but were forced back by protesters, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The RSF and army forces claim they seek to remove the roadblocks to clean the area but the protesters refuse,&#8221; a demonstrator tasked with protecting the camp, who preferred to remain unnamed, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators have staged a sit-in outside the main army headquarters as part of protests against longtime President Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted by the military last week after three decades in power.<\/p>\n<p>The army also established a military council to run the country for a transitional period of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators, however, have refused to end their sit-in, calling for the transfer of power to a civilian government.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA), which spearheaded protests against al-Bashir, called on supporters to converge on the protest camp outside the army headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appeal to all to move immediately to the protest camp to protect the revolution and its gains,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reportedly attempted on Monday to break up a sit-in staged by protesters outside the army headquarters in Khartoum. Military bulldozers moved to remove roadblocks erected by protesters near the headquarters but were forced back by protesters, according to eyewitnesses. &#8220;The RSF and army forces claim they seek to remove the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,37,101],"tags":[13428,13745,2372],"class_list":["post-63551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-middle-east","category-politics","tag-afghan-army","tag-khartoum","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}