Martyrs are central figures in the December Revolution as a process that reshaped practices and ideas of a common struggle for freedom and justice. The term shahīd (شهيد), which is found in the Quran with the meaning “(faith) witness”, was widely used by the Ingaz regime for soldiers killed in the war with South Sudan, which was ideologically considered to be jihād (جِهَاد) or a “holy war”. As was the case with other revolutions of the “Arab Springs” cycle, it was gradually reappropriated in Sudan by the protest movement separately from its religious connotation, and martyrs began to be defined as resistants who were deliberately killed because of their conscious support for the Revolution.