When a dictator falls: Inside Sudan’s revolution

He is speaking from Germany, where he is attending a film event, having just left Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where he was one of the artist organisers among the protesters who have toppled the “dancing dictator” Omar al-Bashir, who was never shy to dance on stage at public events.

Yesterday, Kuka said: “We will see what happens. We are hoping Burhan will hand over power to the civilians.” The lead-up to last weekend’s action – when the protesters occupied the space outside the Sudanese military headquarters – was fraught for Kuka, who was busy filming a protest with his cellphone when he was arrested by crime intelligence forces and “fake executed” by his captors before being thrown into jail.

Kuka was taken to a prison in Khartoum that is called The Freezers “because they pump the air conditioning so you are shivering and they leave the lights on all the time. I was in for three weeks and they questioned me every day, but I convinced them I was a nobody, just a protester. They never found out about my films. I managed to destroy my phone, so they never found what I had shot.

“An army officer, a captain called Hamid, decided he wasn’t going to sit by while we were attacked, and he and his troops fired back. The army had stood by us. It was being streamed on Facebook live, and everyone saw and started joining and the crowd grew and it became a sit-in and the protesters have refused to leave to this day.”

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