SUDAN NEWS ALERT: BBC – Sudan to charge eight military officers over deadly crackdown

27/7/19: BBC – Sudan to charge eight military officers over deadly crackdown

 The BBC reports that eight senior military officers are to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity over their alleged role in the June 3 massacre.

 Fath al-Rahman Saeed, head of the committee appointed to investigate the massacre, gave the initials of those indicted for crimes against humanity, but he did not name them.

 He told a news conference that three officers had violated orders by moving security forces into the area of the sit-in protest outside the defence ministry.

 The security forces had, in fact, been ordered to clear a different area of the city, nicknamed Colombia, he said.

 Security forces "broke the law and entered the sit-in area", he was quoted by AFP News agency as saying. "[They] removed the barricades, fired tear gas and fired intense and random bullets that led to the killing and wounding of protesters and the burning of tents."