Now, a military council is in control, but protesters are refusing to leave until the generals give way to a civilian government. The protesters say without the political pressure generated by the sit-in, the revolution will fail.“The law here is freedom.”
A man in a Guy Fawkes mask waves a Sudanese flag above the sit in on Tuesday April 30 outside the military headquarters in Khartoum (Jason Patinkin for VICE News).
Music is constant, from small drum circles to nightly concerts, which have featured reggae artists, DJs, Sudanese pop stars, a violin orchestra, and a saxophone-playing soldier. There is public art nearly everywhere. Colorful murals of Nubian queens and people killed in the revolution blanket the walls surrounding the sit-in, while an outdoor studio has brought together dozens of artists painting a three-kilometer-long canvas that when finished will be the world’s longest painting.“They have turned us into a nation of beggars.”
A boy gets his face painted in the colors of the current Sudanese flag (left) and the Sudans former independence flag (right). (Jason Patinkin for VICE News.)
Adam Ishmael Mohamed, a paramount chief of the Fur tribe from North Darfur, looks at images of atrocities committed in Darfur on display at the sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum on Tuesday April 30.(Jason Patinkin for VICE News).
"In public hospitals there are lifesaving drugs that we run out of, not once or twice, but regularly," said Dr. Tamadur Osman, who works at a public hospital during the day but comes to the sit-in after work. Pointing to a dosage of an anti-inflammatory asthma treatment, she added: "The last time I saw this in a public hospital was two years ago."To feed the revolution, five kitchens churn out three meals a day, distributed for free to anyone at the sit-in. At the largest kitchen, in an occupied university building, geography teacher turned head chef Saddiq Ahmed Hassan sliced thick slabs of beef while volunteers hauled in a huge sack of onions.“It feels like you have gone through a new gate for a new life, a new gate where you can make your dreams real.”
Women doctors march in protest demanding justice for people killed by the regime during the uprising on Tuesday April 30 at the sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum (Jason Patinkin for VICE News).
A protester holds his hands up in the V for Victory symbol on Tuesday April 30 at the sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum. (Jason Patinkin for VICE News).