Thousands of people took to the streets in a Khartoum district on Monday night to protest against the killing of a civilian by paramilitary groups on Sunday, reported Al Jazeera. The crowd waved Sudanese flags and chanted revolutionary slogans in the capital’s eastern district of Burri, witnesses said.
The civilian was shot dead when residents gathered in the town of El-Souk in the state of Sinnar to demand that members of the feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces leave the town. The paramilitaries allegedly opened fire at the demonstrators.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) reported six civilians have been killed in Sudan over the past three days. The CCSD held the Transitional Military Council (TMC) responsible for their deaths.
In its statement released on Monday, the coalition of Sudanese doctors said that four of the victims belonged to a single family in Omdurman. It said they were killed after a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) vehicle ran them over.
Monday’s demonstration in the capital came as protest leaders and the country’s ruling military council are working out the details of a power-sharing agreement reached between the two sides earlier this month.
The negotiations have been postponed twice following requests from Sudan’s pro-democracy movement. The military council members and the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, which represents the protesters, were supposed to meet on Sunday to finalize and sign the agreement. But, the protest leaders postponed the meeting as they said they need to have further consultations before signing the power-sharing deal with the military. The meeting has now been pushed back to Tuesday.
As the power transition deal, the military would head a transitional authority for 21 months, with a civilian figure in charge for the next 18 months, after which elections would be held. The agreement, brokered by African Union and Ethiopian negotiators, also included a pledge to investigate the June 3 violence that killed over 100 Sudanese.
