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Break the Girls
Right now, a group of young professionals in the Sudan are fighting for their civil rights. What is remarkable about this group, besides the fact that they managed to oust brutal dictator Omar al-Bashir in April, is the cooperation between men and women.
Side by side, shoulder to shoulder, young Sudanese professional doctors, lawyers, engineers, and teachers, male and female, are pursuing their ultimate goal of a democratically elected government. They are standing up, sitting-in, protesting, and enduring great hardship.
And they aren’t backing down.
Remnants of Omar al-Bashir’s Sudanese military is the reason they can’t abandon the fight for democracy, not yet. The young professionals of the Sudan are hoping to avoid the fate of other movements after the Arab Spring.
Failing to prevent the military from taking control during the tumult by force, or in the case of the Sudan, allowing the military to maintain its hold on Sudan by force, is not something Sudanese protesters are prepared to accept.