SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AFP - Records show 85 killed in June crackdown: Sudan rights body

24/9/19: AFP - Records show 85 killed in June crackdown: Sudan rights body

 Sudanese police records show 85 people were killed in the June 3 massacre the Sudan’s Human Rights Commission said, despite the Forces of Freedom and Change saying that at least 127 were killed and hundreds more wounded.

 Commission chief Hurriya Ismail told reporters in Khartou that the armed men who dispersed the protest camp were dressed in uniforms worn by police and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, using “maximum force without giving any warning to those inside the sit-in which was a peaceful and legal gathering.”

 "What happened was a dangerous violation of the right to life, and those involved should face the court for this criminal offence,” she added.

 Ismail's comments come just two days after the country's new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok set up a seven-member committee to probe the crackdown as demanded by the Forces of Freedom and Change.