Pro-reform groups warned of a “frenzied campaign launched by the military junta to arrest political activists and revolutionaries” ahead of a general strike that started on Sunday. More than 120 people died and hundreds were injured when paramilitaries attacked a protest camp in the centre of Khartoum on Monday. The deaths on Monday have been blamed on the pramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is largely made up of militias accused of systematic human rights abuses during the war in Darfur. “The RSF shot at me and I was hit in the arm,” Ahmed said. They beat the doctors and humiliated them, and shot one.”Ibrahim, 32, was fleeing the protest camp when he was shot in the hand.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2019 02:03 UTC