Hundreds of people have rallied in parts of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to demand an independent investigation into a deadly June raid on a protest camp after a probe blamed its bloody dispersal on "rogue" military personnel, Aljazeera reports.
On June 3, gunmen in military fatigues stormed the sit-in outside the military headquarters in Khartoum, shooting and beating pro-democracy protesters who were camped out there for months, initially seeking the removal of President Omar al-Bashir and then demanding that the generals who overthrew him cede power to civilians.
More than 100 demonstrators were killed in the raid, according to the protest-aligned Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors, while over 700 others were reported wounded from the attack and subsequent days of violence.
Survivors recounted that the security forces, mostly made up of members from the notorious Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is led by the deputy head of the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC), threw bodies into the Nile River near the sit-in.
On Saturday, a joint probe by prosecutors and the TMC said that RSF paramilitaries were involved in the raid along with some members of other security forces. The investigation report said the "rogue" military personnel had acted alone, however.
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