30 killed as Sudan forces try to disperse protesters

30 killed as Sudan forces try to disperse protesters
Sudanese forces entered the site of a sit-in in central Khartoum early on Monday (June 3) amid gunfire, witnesses and Arab television stations said, in what activists described as an attempt to disperse protesters demanding civilian rule.

A medical association affiliated to protesters said at least thirty people were killed and dozens injured in the raid, which was still in progress.

The violence comes amid a persistent deadlock in talks between protesters and Sudan's military rulers over demands to hand over power to civilians.

The Transitional Military Council (TMC), which assumed power in April when the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir after three decades in office, has offered to let protesters form a government to run the country but insists on maintaining overall authority during an interim period.

Demonstrators want civilians to run the transitional period and lead the North African country of 40 million to democracy.

The TMC has repeatedly said it would not use force to disperse the protesters, often comprising thousands of young men and women who take turns camping outside the Defence Ministry.

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