# Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records Date: 2021 ## The fact On 17 November 2021 Sudanese security forces shot dead sixteen people during anti-coup protests in and around Khartoum, including a woman and a child, Human Rights Watch reported, citing forensic reports that showed head, neck, and chest wounds among twelve autopsies. Medical reports said 107 were wounded, including 48 reportedly from live ammunition. [Abdel Fattah al-Burhan](/people/abdel-fattah-al-burhan) had denied army involvement in earlier killings in a 7 November televised interview. ## Context Protests continued after the 25 October coup. A 21 November deal briefly restored Hamdok. HRW pointed to SAF, RSF, CRP, and police uniforms. Sharing uniforms is not a reason to drop 17 November 2021 from the commander-in-chief’s file. 7 November denial; 17 November killings; 23 November HRW note. Stored as one 17 November 2021 Fact. Keep Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records on 2021-11-17 separate from neighbouring Burhan instruments. The Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces can dissolve a cabinet on television, order air strikes, and refuse to dissolve SAF. He does not write Human Rights Watch briefing notes, IPC famine classifications, or Reuters first-shot reconstructions. ## Evidence and sources Reuters carries the official instrument or communique. Human Rights Watch records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is the owned SAF-civil-war driver: completed live fire against crowds opposing the 25 October coup. ## What is established and what is not Established: HRW recorded sixteen people shot dead on 17 November 2021 during anti-coup protests, including a woman and a child. Not established: A unique integer reconciling all November protest days, or that the 21 November Hamdok deal cancelled 17 November 2021. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Sharing uniforms with RSF is not a reason to drop the date.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records, not a later speech about Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records on 2021-11-17 is not a licence to treat every later Reuters communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Security forces shoot anti-coup protesters dead in Khartoum, Human Rights Watch records into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was commander-in-chief and coup leader when the 17 November shootings occurred. Sharing uniforms with RSF is not a reason to drop the date. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Abdel Fattah al-Burhan: https://factrail.ai/people/abdel-fattah-al-burhan ## Drivers - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space - Burhan SAF civil war: https://factrail.ai/drivers/burhan-saf-civil-war ## Sources - https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/23/sudan-security-forces-use-lethal-force-protesters - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mobile-phone-lines-inside-sudan-are-cut-before-planned-protests-2021-11-17/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-burhan-nov2021-lethal-force