SUDAN
Blood for Blood
Thousands of Sudanese protesters gathered near the presidential palace in Khartoum Thursday, demanding justice for those slain during pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year.
“Blood for blood, we won’t accept blood money,” the crowd chanted.
It was the first major protest since the country’s military and civilian groups signed a power-sharing agreement last month to install a three-year transitional government that will end in elections.
Protesters demanded the appointment of a new head of the judiciary and a new public prosecutor to prosecute members of the security forces responsible for deaths during demonstrations against Omar al-Bashir and against the military council that initially replaced him, Reuters reported.
Bashir was ousted in April.
In June, the military council sacked public prosecutor Awaleed Sayed Ahmed Mahmoud after he announced he would investigate the killings of dozens of people during a sit-in on June 3.
Authorities claimed that casualties amounted to 87 that day, but protest groups have put the toll at nearly 130.
Justice for slain protesters has been one of the key demands of the civilian parties in the power-sharing deal.
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