REVOLT SHAKES ABBOUD REGIME IN SUDAN
Gen. Ibrahim Abboud, who seized power in the Sudan in 1958, suspended the constitution, dissolved parliament, banned all political parties and set-up a military junta, was in deep trouble after popular outbursts that began October 22 with a student demonstration in Khartoum protesting the violent suppression of a Negro separatist movement: ‘in the south.
According to reports trickling through a tight censorship, the police killed one of the students. A delegation was sent to the authorities to lodge a protest. All of them were arrested.
On October 23 violent demonstrations broke out in_Khartoum. Among the slogans were “Down with Yankee imperialism!" [American aid has helped Abboud stay in power.] The crowds damaged the American Embassy and set fire to the American Information Service,
The regime replied with a curfew and energetic police action. But the demonstrations spread on the following two days. The armed — forces were ordered to "shoot on sight" anyorie who damaged property. Tanks, armored cars. and machine guns were brought out and troops were deployed in public buildings. These moves had little effect. Crowds sacked the progovernment paper Al: Rai Al Aam [Public Opinion] as well as the Belgian and Koweit embassies.
The government closed all schools and-appealed for “calm,” — The school teachers, however, had already joined the students and : disturbances were spreading to Omdurman, Kassala, Atabara, Port Sudan and other towns.
On October 26 Abboud announced over the Omdurman radio that he had dismissed his cabinet and dissolved the military junta. These were first steps, he said, toward establishing: a new constitu tion. Meanwhile he personally would retain all government powers. He again appealed for “calm but it remained to be seen whether the maneuver was not too little and too late to appease the popular anger.
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