SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: New York Times - The Son Protested the Dictator. The Father Helped Throw Him Out.
Declan Walsh's spoke to Sudanese air force chief Abdelkhalig Salah, a member of Sudan’s transitional military council, and his son Salah Abdelkhalig, a commercial airline pilot.
Revealing "for the first time" details of the coup ousting Omar Al Bashir, the father said it was planned and implemented within 5 hours, with Al Bashir accusing former Sudanese spy chief Salah Gosh.
The father, already disillusioned with the regime’s corruption and travel-restricting sanctions, turned against Al Bashir after his son joined the protests. The son was frustrated that sanctions restricted his planes access to spare parts.
Nonetheless, the father warned of a civil war if demands, driven by "communists," for an immediate civilian government continue. He also "defends Sudan’s army against accusations of human rights abuses," and refuses to send Al Bashir and other officials to the International Criminal Court because: “you cannot give them to white people to judge.”