An urgent UN and AU inquiry is needed after the military has made a deadly decision on protesters

After the admission of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC), they all met with the country's security officials on 2 June and after receiving undisclosed advice from the Attorney General and the head of the judiciary, ordered the dispersal of peaceful protesters on 3 June. "By mistake" killed more than 100 people and injured hundreds of others, said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the United States. Horn and the Great Lakes:

"It is completely outrageous and unacceptable that what has been confirmed as a carefully planned attack against sleepy protesters has been reduced to a" mistake "in the same breath.

"The senseless killings of protesters must stop immediately and bloodshed leaders, including at the command level, must be held fully accountable for their actions.

"The Attorney General and the head of the judiciary should urgently clarify the advice they have given before leaving the meeting where this decision was taken. The world must understand how much they have advised the security forces on the legality and proportionality of the lethal force used.

"Following this admission, it is now more urgent than ever, in the interests of accountability and transparency, for the military authorities to authorize international control and investigations by the United Nations and the African Union on the subject. Escalation of human rights violations under their supervision. "

Context

TMC spokesman Lieutenant General Shams al-Deen al-Kabashi issued a statement on June 13 about the meeting on June 2, where it was decided to clean up the sit-in of the protesting near the army headquarters in Khartoum. The statement reads in part:

"In the evening before the decision to abolish the sit-in was called, we convened a meeting attended by all members of the TMC, the Chief of Military Intelligence, the Chief of Staff Command. (army), the national security chief and his deputy, the chief of police and his deputy, and the leader of RSF. We also invited the head of the judiciary and the attorney general to attend this meeting to provide us with legal advice on how to handle this situation. We thanked the head of the judiciary and the attorney general for their advice, and then left the meeting. "