PARIS (Reuters) - Hope is turning again in Sudan to disappointment when follow-up talks reached a dead end following the killing of students by security forces during a demonstration in the White city on Tuesday.
The Forces for Freedom and Change had reached a "historic" agreement with the military junta in mid-July on political arrangements for the interim period.
Negotiations scheduled for the first day between the two parties were not held due to charges against the rapid support forces of killing six students during student demonstrations, which were fueled by a lack of bread and deteriorating conditions.
"The live ammunition has launched a demonstration for schoolchildren, we call on our people to take to the streets to denounce the massacre of the white, and we demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice," she quoted the gathering of Sudanese professionals, who sparked the revolt that toppled President Omar al-Bashir in April.
Unlawful crime
The demonstrators accuse the paramilitary rapid support forces led by the second man in the transitional military junta, Mohammad Hamdan Daghlu (Hamidati), to open fire on the crowd. The head of the military council, Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, condemned what he called an "unacceptable crime" "Investigate and bring to justice all perpetrators of violence against children".
The massacre came two days after the results of the official investigation into the Wafd massacre of the General Command, which concluded that the Sudanese paramilitary groups may have participated in the sit-in on June 3, which claimed the lives of dozens of Sudanese (127 according to a committee of doctors and 87 according to The results of the investigation).
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According to the head of the medical committee, members of the rapid support force "disobeyed orders" to enter the sit-in, denying any responsibility for the junta in this bloody campaign, but the protest leaders rejected the conclusions of the investigation, without rejecting the call to resume negotiations with the generals.
The question: Did leaders retreat after the killing of demonstrators aged between 15 and 17 on Monday? Arguing that the leaders of the revolutionary movement - who have been strongly criticized for concessions to the junta in recent weeks - have taken this new violence into account by deciding not to participate in discussions with the military the day after the killing.
A settled option
"Civilians face a dilemma in a country where the military controls institutions, either continue to settle with generals who enjoy impunity, or refuse to return to the negotiating table," the paper quoted researcher Ann Laure Mahe, an East African specialist at the Institute for Strategic Research at the French military school. The culprits did not identify the perpetrators. However, the progress achieved in the agreement reached by the two sides was not enormous, especially since the political declaration laid down some foundations only, but the devil is in the details. "
The newspaper concluded that the Sudanese people had apparently settled their choice after it was widely deployed across the country on Tuesday to demand justice, raising the slogan "killing a student equals killing a nation."