Paris: Rhino – Human rights organizations, in cooperation with the United Civil Forces Alliance (Ghimum), justice and truth activists, and civil society organizations, organized a protest on Tuesday in Place de la République in the French capital, Paris, against the Sudanese army’s use of chemical weapons and its commission of genocide against civilians.

Many civil and human rights organizations participated in the demonstration, along with representatives of the Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasis), including the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North led by Abdulaziz al-Hilu, the Justice and Equality Movement led by Suleiman Sandal, and the Sudan Liberation Forces.

The organizers of the protest said that it was a cry of conscience in the face of a military machine that destroyed all that remained of humanity in Sudan, while speakers called for an urgent and independent international investigation into the crimes committed, foremost among them the use of chemical weapons against civilians. They chanted, “This time there is no escape from accountability, and there is no way out for the killers except justice.”

One of the participants in the protest said: “The war of April 15 is an attempt to reproduce the Salvation regime through the guns of the Muslim Brotherhood militias or Alburhan. With every shell that falls, a new martyr is buried, and an old question is born: How long will the world remain silent?”

He added: “The war raging in Sudan is not just a war between two armies, but a systematic massacre against peoples aspiring to change, the popular dream of a democratic civil state that embodies the marginalized longing for social justice.”

However, this protest was not a plea for absent justice. but a reminder that the Sudanese people are still fighting, not with weapons, but with resilience and a will for change that emerged in December 2018 and continues to light the way, despite all the betrayals, coups, and divisions.

He continued: “This demonstration is not an isolated event, but a new chapter in the long struggle of a people who have been stripped of their voice in their homeland, but who have not given up their voice in exile. Paris has proven that the flame of revolution has not been extinguished, and that Sudanese people are continuing on their path toward a homeland that accommodates everyone, a homeland ruled by democracy, not tanks; justice, not favoritism; and the dignity of citizens, not the decisions of the Sovereign Council.”