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Khartoum
Protest leaders resumed talks with Sudan’s military rulers Tuesday seeking to build on a political breakthrough overshadowed by deadly shootings that Washington blamed on the generals.
The protest movement is demanding a civilian-led transition following 30 years of ironfisted rule by president Omar al-Bashir, but the generals who toppled him have been holding onto a leadership role.
An army major and five protesters were killed by unidentified gunmen at a long-running sit-in outside military headquarters in Khartoum late on Monday, just hours after the two sides announced they had reached agreement on the structure and powers of bodies that will oversee a transition.
The Alliance for Freedom and Change–the protest movement umbrella group negotiating with the ruling military council–said the shootings were an attempt to “disturb the breakthrough”.
The military council said it had “noticed some armed infiltrators among the protesters” at the sit-in, but did not identify them.
Khartoum
Protest leaders resumed talks with Sudan’s military rulers Tuesday seeking to build on a political breakthrough overshadowed by deadly shootings that Washington blamed on the generals.
The protest movement is demanding a civilian-led transition following 30 years of ironfisted rule by president Omar al-Bashir, but the generals who toppled him have been holding onto a leadership role.
An army major and five protesters were killed by unidentified gunmen at a long-running sit-in outside military headquarters in Khartoum late on Monday, just hours after the two sides announced they had reached agreement on the structure and powers of bodies that will oversee a transition.
The Alliance for Freedom and Change–the protest movement umbrella group negotiating with the ruling military council–said the shootings were an attempt to “disturb the breakthrough”.
The military council said it had “noticed some armed infiltrators among the protesters” at the sit-in, but did not identify them.
