Sudan ruling military council on Tuesday said it is ready to negotiate with the protestors only they put an end to demonstrations that are disrupting trains and bridges all across the country.
“We are ready to negotiate but no chaos after today,” said Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the Transitional Military Council’s (TMC) deputy head, reported Africa News. “We told them, continue with the sit-in, but the train is connected to delivering fuel.”
The military said on Tuesday that it would not disperse a protest sit-in that has been taking place outside the defence ministry since April 6.
“We have no interest in dispersing the sit-in but it’s in the interest of the Sudanese people to open the roads,” said TMC member Lieutenant General Salah Abdelkhalek.
He ensured the TMC is in no way connected to the previous government and that the military council is together with the general people in their revolution.
“We are part of the revolution and not part of the former regime as people view us,” said Abdelkhalek.
The Sudanese Professionals Association, the main organizers of the protests, and its supporting groups have been creating pressure on the military council to speed up the transition to civilian rule since the army dethroned former president Omar al-Bashir on April 11. They have continued with the sit-in even after the army removed Bashir from power, as protesters demanded civilian rule.
Meanwhile, the protest leaders called out for a mass rally amid mounting tensions over the composition of a joint civilian-military council to run the country. The appeal was made just after Sudan’s military rulers warned against chaos.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the political parties leading the months-long anti-government protests have urged the people of Sudan to gather once again for a million-strong march on May 2 to keep up the pressure for civilian rule.
