Sudan: The Bloody 100

SUDAN

A Bloody Hundred

The death toll from the military crackdown on the protest movement in Sudan over the past few days reached more than 100 people on Wednesday.

“To this moment, the total number of deaths that have been accounted by doctors is 101,” the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors said, citing the retrieval of 40 bodies from the Nile River by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Al Jazeera reported. Later, Reuters reported that the government health ministry pegged the death toll at 46.

In the wake of the carnage, military council head General Abdel-Fattah Burhan offered to re-open negotiations without preconditions. But a spokesman for one of the groups leading the demonstrations said the protesters “totally reject” that proposal and accused the military council of offering negotiations while terror still reigns in the streets.

“This call is not serious,” Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa, spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals Association, told the Associated Press. “Burhan and those under him have killed the Sudanese and are still doing it. Their vehicles patrol the streets, firing at people.”