SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Washington Post – A chance for democracy in Sudan is being snatched away. The world must act.
The Washington Post editorial board call for the west to speak up “strongly” for the Sudanese demonstrators, force the military to relinquish power, and impose sanctions “on those who carried out the carnage.”
The editorial argues that the military council “must be told, loud and clear, that the rest of the world will not recognize a leadership that seized power at the point of a gun,” suggesting that they should not be provided international finance.
In addition, the WashPo editors call for sanctions to be imposed on the Rapid Support Forces, “who led the Khartoum massacre.”
The editorial concludes by stating that US President Trump’s silence about Sudan is deafening and telling, before calling for Sudanese hopes for democracy “[to] not be extinguished by complacency and indifference elsewhere.”