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Hundreds of Sudanese students chanting "Civil Regime, Civil Regime" rallied Tuesday in downtown Khartoum to demand justice for their comrades killed during months of political unrest.
The rally follows a power-sharing agreement signed last week between protest leaders and army leaders, but talks must still focus on the responsibility of hundreds of people killed since protests began. , in December.
Tuesday's protest was convened by the Sudanese Professionals Association, the group that initially led the campaign against the deposed leader, Omar al-Bashir.
"Blood for blood, we do not want compensation," the students chanted, many of them holding photographs of comrades killed during a seven-month protest while others waved Sudanese flags.
Riot police deployed in the region did not clash with protesters.
"We are in the street because we want the people responsible for the sit-in mbadacre to be held responsible," said student Malaz Eizzeddine.
She was referring to the June 3 crackdown on a protest camp in the capital, Khartoum, during which dozens of protesters were killed and hundreds wounded.
Ismail al-Taj, one of the leaders of the event, addressed students before the event.
"You are the soul of the revolution, we are faithful to you, as well as the martyrs," he said while demonstrators chanted revolutionary slogans.
Doctors close to the protest said that 246 people were killed across the country during violence related to the protest, while the Sudanese authorities made fewer casualties.
Although protest leaders and generals who took power after the dismissal of Bashir signed a power-sharing agreement, three rebel groups supporting protesters expressed reservations about the deal.
Talks are currently underway in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, between protest leaders and rebel groups, who said the July 17 agreement was "unacceptable".
They insist that the agreement should make peace negotiations for Sudan's war zones a priority, as well as respond to the needs of those affected by conflict.
The agreement signed this month aims to establish a joint civil-military leadership body that would then establish a comprehensive civil administration, the protesters' main demand.
More and more talks between generals and protest leaders to resolve some outstanding issues have been suspended since rebel groups voiced their concerns.
No date has yet been set for the resumption of mediated talks by Ethiopian diplomats and the African Union.
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