SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan protest leaders reject offer of talks with military

5/6/19: Multiple sources – Sudan protest leaders reject offer of talks with military

• Reuters

• Independent, by Samuel Osborne

• Sky News

• AFP

The Declaration of Freedom and Change has rejected the offer of talks with the country's military rulers after 60 people reportedly died in a violent security crackdown.

 The DFC - an alliance of demonstrators and opposition groups - said the Transitional Military Council was "not a source of trust". One of the alliance's leaders, Madani Abbas Madani, said the council was "imposing fear on citizens in the streets".

 Also, Mohammed Yousef al Mustafa, a spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals Association which is one of the groups leading the pro-democracy demonstrations, said the military cannot talk while it is killing protesters.

 Promising to continue the campaign of “protests, resistance, strike and total civil disobedience, he said that: “this all is not serious. Al Burhan and those under him have killed the Sudanese and are still doing it. Their vehicles patrol the streets, firing at people."