SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Sudan says 87 killed when troops broke up protest, critics say too low

27/7/19: Reuters - Sudan says 87 killed when troops broke up protest, critics say too low

 Reuters reports that Fathalrahman Saeed, the head of the investigative committee into the June 3 massacre appointed by Sudan’s public prosecutor, said that 87 people were killed, a figure regime opponents dismissed as too low.

 Saeed said 17 of the killed were in the square occupied by protesters, with 168 wounded. However, opposition medics said that 127 were killed and 400 were wounded. Saeed added that the committee did not uncover any incidents of rape, despite the testimonies of local medics.  

Ismail Al Taj of the Sudanese Professionals Association said that the investigative committee relied on “inaccurate” Health Ministry records.

 Saeed said that three officers – none of them part of the military council - violated orders by moving Rapid Support Forces into the Khartoum sit-in area, after some “outlaws” formed another gathering in the Columbia area “where…illegal practices [occurred].”

 He said eight (unnamed) officers were charged with crimes against humanity.