Army hands over results of 2019 protest killings probe

Sudan’s army said it had handed prosecutors the results of a probe into the 2019 killing of protesters in Khartoum, after hundreds rallied this week calling for justice, AFP reported.

Following months of demonstrations, thousands gathered in April 2019 outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, demanding Omar Bashir step down.

The iron-fisted ruler was ousted days later, but protesters kept up the sit-in for weeks, demanding the transfer of power from military to civilian rule.

That June, armed men in military fatigues violently dispersed the camp in a days-long crackdown that left at least 128 people dead, according to medics linked to the protest movement.

The ruling generals at the time denied ordering the bloody dispersal and called for a probe into the incident.

“General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, head of the transitional sovereign council and the armed forces commander-in-chief handed the results of an armed forces probe into the events… to prosecutor general Tagelsir Al-Hebr,” the army said in a statement, cited by AFP.