Khartoum massacre

Khartoum massacre
Part of Sudanese Revolution
Khartoum is located in Sudan
Khartoum
Khartoum
Khartoum (Sudan)
LocationKhartoum, Sudan
Date3 June 2019
TargetSudanese protesters
Attack type
Mass murder
Deaths128+[1]
Injured650+ injured[2] and 70 raped[3][4]
PerpetratorsRapid Support Forces (RSF),[5] Janjaweed militias[4] and TMC security forces[4]
MotiveDispersing sit in camp
Khartoum City

The Khartoum massacre occurred on 3 June 2019, when the armed forces of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the immediate successor organisation to the Janjaweed militia,[6] used heavy gunfire and tear gas to disperse a sit-in by protestors in Khartoum, killing over 100 people,[7] with difficulties in estimating the actual numbers.[8][9][10] At least forty of the bodies had been thrown in the River Nile.[11] Hundreds of unarmed civilians were injured, hundreds of unarmed citizens were arrested, many families were terrorised in their home estates across Sudan,[12][8] and the RSF raped more than 70 women and men.[3][4] The Internet was almost completely blocked in Sudan in the days following the massacre, making it difficult to estimate the number of victims.[13][14]

In October 2019, during the 39-month planned transition to democracy, an official Khartoum massacre investigation commission was created as required under Article 7. (16) of the Sudanese August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration,[15][16] under the authority of transition period Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.[17] The commission is led by human rights lawyer Nabil Adib or Nabil Adib Abdalla and with no female members, to the objection of The No to Oppression against Women Initiative.[18]

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  2. ^ Walsh, Declan (4 June 2019). "Sudan's Protesters Reject Military Plan After Crackdown Kills Dozens". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
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  6. ^ "Sudan leader vows to 'uproot regime'". 13 April 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  7. ^ Kareem Khadder and Julia Hollingsworth (5 June 2019). "Sudan death roll rises to 100 as bodies found in Nile, say doctors". CNN. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  8. ^ a b Oliphant, Roland (3 June 2019). "Sudan protests: Thirty dead and more than 100 injured as troops disperse demonstrators". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Security forces in Sudan carry out raids across capital, killing at least 30". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  10. ^ "Sudan security forces shoot protesters at sit-in outside army headquarters". The Defense Post. 3 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference IOL_Nile_bodies was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ "Protesters shot as Sudan military tries to clear Khartoum sit-in". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference ThomReut_anti_NCP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  18. ^ Cite error: The named reference Dabanga_women2investigation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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