Sudan’s protest leaders have rejected the ruling military council’s calls for talks as the number of protestors who got killed during Monday’s brutal attack in Khartoum crossed 100. The security forces had opened fire on unarmed protesters outside the Defense Ministry in the capital earlier this week.
On Thursday, Medani Abbas Medani, leader of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), said there was no scope for negotiations as military leaders attempted to do damage control in the face of international criticism of Monday’s indiscriminate killings, reported CNN.
“There is no way to solve the complexity that cripples the country except by continuing the revolution until we eliminate the military council,” Medani said on Facebook. “Khartoum and Sudan are under occupation and that’s the only solution”
The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) also issued a statement calling out protesters to continue their “civil disobedience and open political strike” in the face of the military’s offer of talks. The protest group said demonstrations would continue until they topple “the coup council.”
The SPA also called on all countries and international organizations to cease dealing with Sudan’smilitary council. They also made an appeal to the international community to start looking into “the ongoing violations and crimes committed by (TMC) in all cities and towns and to stop it immediately.”
While, the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD), an organization of medical volunteers, said more than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured during the Monday attack, the official Sudanese Health Ministry claimed the death toll was not over 46, according to state media.
As per reports, dozens of bodies were pulled from the River Nile in Khartoum on Tuesday and doctors said they had been weighed down with rocks in an attempt to hide the actual death toll.
“To this moment, the total number of deaths that have been accounted by doctors is 101,” the Central Committee for Sudanese Doctors said.
