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Why Sudan's deadly crackdown on protesters could escalate in coming weeks

  • Written by Eric Keels, Research Fellow at the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee
In this Sunday, June 9, 2019 frame grab from Sudan TV, Lt. Gen. Jamaleddine Omar, from the ruling military council, speaks on a broadcast. SUDAN TV via AP

Sudanese security forces violently removed a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, on June 3.

In addition to brutally beating the pro-democracy protesters, government troops also fired on the...

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