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Military regimes come and go in Sudan with numbing regularity, but the present junta, led by Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir, who overthrew an elected government on June 30, 1989, is setting new standards of brutality and depravity. Within days of the coup Bashir outlawed every political party, trade union, civic organization and professional syndicate detained thousands of activists and began purging the civil service of secularists, leftists, southerners and women. In describing the current regime, human rights groups reach for superlatives. A report published in March by Africa Watch calls Sudan a "human rights disaster," "exceptionally cruel and intolerant" and "indiscriminately brutal."