SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Times - Alaa Salah: Sudan’s ‘woman in white’ on why she’s prepared to die

12/7/19: Times - Alaa Salah: Sudan’s ‘woman in white’ on why she’s prepared to die, by Mark Harrison

 Mark Harrison’s feature piece spoke to Alaa Salah, who went viral for protesting Omar Al Bashir’s regime, in Marrakech at the annual summit of the Women in Africa Initiative.

 Salah said “women have always been in the front, contributing to change,” adding that “people thought Sudanese women were conservative and afraid to speak out, but when they saw it was a girl…addressing the crowd it changed the stereotype.”

 She said she boycotted her university classes because we refuse “we were not going to climb the education ladder at the expense of their martyrs’ blood.”

 Salah said she was “part of millions of people, who knew they “would face the regime’s forces and bullets.” However, “it was a cause dear to our hearts…we felt we represented light and the regime darkness,” she added.

 Following the June 3 massacre she said “the feeling is different now, but we have not lost hope.”