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A Sudanese general on Sunday promised to send to the "post" those who carried out a deadly crackdown on protesters earlier this month, which left dozens dead and hundreds wounded.
"We are working hard to bring to justice those who have done this," said Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the ruling military council, in a speech broadcast live on state television.
"Anyone who has committed a fault" will be held responsible, added Dagalo.
According to witnesses, thousands of protesters who had been outside Khartoum's army headquarters for weeks were violently dispersed by armed men in military uniform.
According to doctors linked to the protest movement, more than 100 people were killed that day in Khartoum, while the Ministry of Health estimated 61 deaths in the country.
On Thursday, the spokesman of the military council, General Shamseddine Kabbashi, expressed his "regret" for the repression.
But the council insists that he did not order the dispersal, saying that he had in fact planned to purge an area near the protest camp where people would sell drugs.
"The planning of the operation of Colombia (region) was carried out by the military and security authorities," said the council in a statement released Saturday night.
"We badure you that the board is committed to investigating the facts minute by minute through its investigating committee."
Brigadier Abderrahim Badreddine, spokesman for the investigation committee, said the initial findings show that "officers and soldiers of different ranks belonging to the regular forces entered the sit-in without any orders from their superiors. . "
"They were not among the troops who were ordered to clean up Colombia," he told state television.
The crackdown sparked an international condemnation, with the United States and others calling for an independent investigation into the killings.
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