Atos Deaths & Regime Change in Sudan: Ten years in the past on twenty eighth September 2013 I photographed a protest in Parliament Sq. in opposition to the degrading and wholly unreliable assessments administered by Atos to find out whether or not disabled peole qualify for advantages. The I continued to the Sudanese Embassy the place a big crowd of Sudanese have been calling for an finish to the repressive regime in Sudan.
10,000 Cuts – Deaths After Atos Exams – Parliament Sq.
10,000 White chrysanthemums have been unfold on the mud and grass of Parliament Sq. in an act of remembrance and solidarity for over 10,000 disabled peole who’ve died within the three months after being made to take the degrading Work Functionality Assessments run for the federal government by Atos.
The ten,000 are largely made up of those that have already got a terminal prognosis however nonetheless have to return and undergo the assessments for ther advantages to proceed for his or her remaining few months of life. And regardless of compelling medical proof many are refused advantages and stated by Atos to be ‘Match for work’.
The ceremony came about within the sq. bounded by the Homes of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, the Supreme Court docket and the Treasury and was organised by the ten,000 Cuts & Counting Marketing campaign which included incapacity activists, Occupy activists, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral and others who recognise that lives are being devastated by the federal government’s austerity programme.
The campaigners don’t claiming that the check itself kills the ten,000, though some have been pushed to commit suicide after being failed by Atos, however that such assessments adminstered within the remaining days of life are unfeeling, pointless and persecute the sick and dying.
Plenty of disabled folks and a mom of three disabled kids gave shifting testimonies with many damning indictments of the failures of Atos and the Division of Work and Pensions and their lack of understading of the wants of the disabled. That they had not been handled with dignity or humanity, with intentionally discriminatory insurance policies, targets to be met, arbitrary choices and bureaucratic incompetence. And there was a interval of silence and prayers to the 4 corners of the sq..
The Tories had clearly seen the disabled as a simple contact for cuts, pondering they’d be unable to defend themselves, however organisations akin to DPAC, Disabled Folks In opposition to Cuts, have signally proved them fallacious. Lots of the disabled have develop into determined and have been among the most outstanding and simplest protesters, not least as a result of the police have nice difficulties (and a few sympathy) in coping with them. Arresting folks in wheelchairs isn’t simple.
Extra at 10,000 Cuts – Deaths After Atos Exams.
Sudanese Name for Regime Change – Sudanese Embassy
I left Parliament Sq. the place the protest was nonetheless persevering with with a lot of folks together with MPs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn in addition to a number of disabled activists nonetheless ready to talk to hurry to the Sudanese Embassy in Cleveland Row on the finish of Pall Mall.
There a loud crowd of round 100 have been in a protest pen calling for Omar al-Bashir and the Nationwide Congress Social gathering to resign. The London protest was in solidarity with these which were going down in Khartoum over rises in gasoline costs and corruption over the previous six days. The protests there have been brutally attacked by the regime.
The protesters in London from ‘Sudan Change Now’ and the ‘Nationwide Sudanese Girls Alliance’ see the federal government as a complete failure in managing the nation for over 23 years, presiding over a political, financial and social collapse.
They are saying the federal government disrespects the Sudanese folks and ignores their training and well being, with all the cash going into ‘safety’ spending, which doesn’t make the folks safe however is used to repress the folks and struggle wars, with most of the greatest Sudanese women and men being killed in South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Darfur.
Below the regime of Omar al-Bashir, the judicial system was base on Sharia Legislation, with stoning, flogging, whipping, hanging and even crucifixtion. Some noticed the protests in Khartoum as the beginning of an ‘Arab Spring’ motion which might result in regime change nevertheless it was not till 2019 that al-Bashir was deposed in a coup d’état, then arrested, tried and convicted on a number of corruption costs.
Extra photos at Sudanese Name for Regime Change.
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