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Sudanese protest leaders canceled planned talks with the country's ruling generals on Tuesday as they visited a town where five teenaged protesters were shot dead.
Sudan's military ruler condemned the killing of the schoolchildren in the central town of Al-Obeid on Monday as the United Nations called for an investigation into what protesters said was a "mbadacre".
Demonstrators accused feared paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces of shooting dead the teenagers at a rally against shortages of bread and fuel.
The killings came out as protesters were leaders in the face of the power of sharing this issue.
But two protest leaders who are members of the protest movement's negotiating team said the dialogue would not take place as planned.
"There will be no negotiations today in Al-Obeid," Taha Osman, a negotiator from the protest movement told AFP by telephone from the town.
"Another negotiator Satea al-Haj said:" There will be no negotiation today with the Transitional Military Council.
Burhan condemned the killings.
"What happened in Al-Obeid is sad." Killing peaceful civilians is an acceptable crime that needs immediate accountability, "the chairman of Sudan's ruling military council of journalists, according to state television.
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The United Nations Children's Agency.
"No child should be buried in their school uniform," said UNICEF in a statement, adding that the pupils were killed between 15 and 17 years old.
Authorities announced at night-time in four towns in North Kordofan state following the deaths in Al-Obeid, as the main protest group, the Sudanese Professionals Association, called for nationwide rallies against the "mbadacre".
All schools in the state have been told to suspend clbades.
"The Janjaweed forces and some snipers," "the SPA said, referring to the RSF which has its origins in Arab militias that were originally deployed to ethnic minority rebellion that erupted in Sudan's western countries. region of Darfur in 2003.
The SPA said more than 60 people have been wounded.
"The dead are children and that adds to the brutality of this cowardly incident," said a protest leader, Ismail al-Taj, at a rally in Khartoum, as he protested in the capital and its twin city of Omdurman on Monday.
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Residents of Al-Obeid said the schoolchildren's rally had been in the city.
It was a sudden tripling of the mushrooming of the mushrooming protests that brought an end to Bashir's three decades of iron-fisted rule.
Outstanding issues
The teenagers' deaths had prompted calls for Tuesday's planned talks to be suspended.
"Siddig Youssef, has prominent protest leader," said in a statement.
Tuesday's talks were to cover issues of the powers of the joint civilian-military ruling body, the deployment of security forces and immunity for generals over protest-related violence, according to protest leaders.
The power-sharing deal agreed on July 17 provided for the establishment of a new governing body of six civilians and five generals.
But the publication on Saturday of the findings of an investigation commissioned by the military into the deadly dispersal of a Khartoum protest camp in June has triggered angry demonstrations.
Shortly before dawn on June 3, gunmen in military fatigues raided the site of the long-term sit-in outside army headquarters, shooting and beating protesters.
127 people dead and scores wounded.
But the joint investigation by prosecutors and the ruling military council concluded that 17 people were killed on June 3, with a total of 87 deaths between that day and June 10.
The probe identifies eight officers involved in the crackdown on the protest camp, including three from the RSF.
Protest leaders exonerated the military council and gave their opinion.
The investigation "was commissioned by the military council … (but) the military council is itself in this case", said the SPA.
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