At least 30 protesters were killed and hundreds injured on Monday when the Sudanese military opened fire to break up a sit-in, according to a local doctors‘ union.
The committee will be made of up of officials — including the heads of public prosecution, senior prosecutors, police representatives and representatives of the military judiciary, the attorney general said.
However, similar vows to investigate protester deaths during the rule of ousted former President Omar al-Bashir were insufficient to appease demonstrators at the time, and the committee’s creation does not appear likely to mollify them now.
Eyewitnesses say security forces shot at protesters
Multiple eyewitnesses told CNN that security forces — the police and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — shot at protesters with live fire. Several videos also showed security forces beating people with sticks. The Sudanese military has moved to forcibly disperse protesters since April 11.
The CCSD also said earlier on its Facebook account that casualties were hit by „live bullets.“ The group said security forces surrounded hospitals where wounded and bodies were taken.
Those killed include an 8-year-old, the CCSD said. It said that more than 116 injured people were in several Khartoum hospitals.
A spokesman for the Sudanese Transitional Council said that the military „didn’t disperse the sit-in by force“ but that the security crackdown was instead on a gathering in a nearby „dangerous“ area.
Mobile internet was also shut down in Sudan on Monday, several sources on the ground told CNN. Services then partially resumed on MTN — one of Sudan’s three mobile networks — with intermittent and slow connectivity.
Opposition groups have relied heavily on social media to mobilize protesters, helping to unseat al-Bashir in April, then opposing the interim military council that has ruled the country since the coup.
