Sudan’s Secret Hit Squads Used to Attack Protests – BBC Africa Eye documentary

These are images the Sudanese government doesnot want you to see.

teams of soldiers and secret agents chasingdown protestors in the streets of the 

capital, Khartoum.

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bagging them over the head… beating them… …and dragging them off to secret detentioncentres where they are held without charge, and in some cases, tortured.

Sudanese activists fear these hit squads.

In this film, we’ll show you who they are… .

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how they operate… .

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and what happens inside the walls of buildingslike this.

Sudan’s uprising began in December 2018.

At first, people were protesting a hike infuel and food prices.

But the demonstrations quickly turned intoa revolt against President Omar al Bashir.

Crowds chanted slogans from the Arab Springrevolutions of 2011 The government has responded with violence.

Security forces have used live ammunition.

According to human rights groups, they havekilled more than 50 of their own citizens.

But they’re not just dispersing protests.

Sudanese activists have recorded dozens ofvideos that show the abduction of individual dissidents.

We have now analysed more than 200 videosfrom the uprising.

In order to protect the people who filmedthem, we cannot share the exact locations at which they were recorded.

But we can use them to show you the hit squadsin action.

This is what they look like: teams of aroundsix men in white Toyota pickup trucks… .

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sometimes with the number plates removedor covered up.

Some are in military uniform.

Others in plain clothes.

Many are wearing masks and carrying weapons: from automatic rifles to crude lengths of plastic pipes used to beat protestors.

So who are these masked, plainclothes agents? Sudanese activists describe them as low-ranking thugs in the pay of the National Security and Intelligence Services, or NISS.

This video doesn’t look like much, but it’simportant because it corroborates that view.

We see soldiers in military fatigues, policemenin blue uniforms, and plainclothes agents all working together.

The clip also captures six of the white pickuptrucks, and a building that is easily identified: the al-Kalakla police station in the southof Khartoum.

This evidence, in combination with the footageof these men in action and the testimony of Sudanese activists, points towards the obviousconclusion: the plainclothes agents are part of the government’s security forces.

These squads have been deployed since Decemberto clear demonstrators from the streets.

Here’s an example of one crew in action.

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filmed by a group of demonstrators who kept their phone recording even as they cameunder fire.

The agents are working around this block, clearing away protestors .

Notice the plainclothes agent at the front.

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and the man in red in the back.

Around the same time, just around the corner, someone else captured the same team in action.

Here’s the man in red.

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and here’s what looks like the same lead agent, firing at protestors.

But this is not just crowd control.

These crews target one person.

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on the streets… or at home.

The victims are beaten….

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dragged into the car.

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and disappear.

We do not know where all these people end up.

But some of them, at least, are brought toa secret holding facility here, just south of Asia hospital.

How do we know this? On January 11, this photo was posted to social media.

The post claims that the street contains adetention centre run by state security.

Since the 1990s, local activists have calledthese places “Ghost Houses” because people disappear behind their walls and because when detainees are tortured, you can hear the screams.

We confirmed that the photo was taken here.

A second activist told us about a detentioncentre in the same neighbourhood.

When we asked him to show us the exact location, he sent us this screenshot, which also places the Ghost House just south of Asia Hospital.

The same source took these photos, which canbe located precisely.

We have since spoken with eight differentwitnesses who said they were detained in a building close to Asia Hospital.

Five of these witnesses said that protestorswere beaten so badly that they could no longer walk.

Some told us that people’s hands were brokenas they attempted to fend off the blows, and that the floor was covered in blood.

But the Asia hospital Ghost House is not theirfinal destination.

Two sources told us that this is just a holdingfacility where detainees are interrogated and sorted.

Many activists deemed to be a threat to theregime are transferred to a larger detention centre here, just north of Khartoum’s Shandi bus terminal.

We have no photos of this place.

One witness told us that you cannot get anywherenear this block with a phone or a camera.

But we spoke to seven former detainees and asked them if they knewexactly where they’d been taken.

Using their phones, they marked up screenshots, identifying a row of four buildings as a torture centrerun by Sudanese security.

One of our sources added a crucial detail- an arrow pointing to The Fridge.

Activist said that The Fridge is a seriesof chilled holding cells in which the cold is used as an instrument of torture – an instrumentthat leaves no marks on the body.

We also spoke with a second person who hadbeen detained here.

The Fridge is not new.

We spoke with one dissident who was held ina cold cell as far back as 2009.

Activists who have been detained here alsodescribe being beaten, sleep deprived, and held in stress positions.

We put these allegation to the Sudanese authorities.

A government spokesperson denied the existenceof secret detention centres, and told us that nobody in the security services had ever heardabout The Fridge.

He said that Sudanese law prohibits the beatingor torture of detainees, and that police are forbidden from pursuing protesters into narrowstreets or into their homes.

He said the protests had not been approved, and were therefore illegal.

He also claimed the protesters were not peaceful, that some had used firearms, and that the police had to defend themselves.

On January 29th, Sudan’s security chief, Mr SalahGhosh, ordered the release of all detainees held during the recent protests.

Some detainees – including people we are intouch with – have been released since then.

But many remain in detention.

And other demonstrators are still being targeted.

A week after Ghosh’s announcement, protesterswere back on the streets of Khartoum, calling for freedom.

This man raised the Sudanese flag.

He was still holding it ….

even as he washauled away.

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