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A hundred protesters were killed on Monday during the military and paramilitary attack against sit-in participants, not 60 people as previously reported, after a civil society group said that At least 40 bodies had been removed from the Nile and taken away by security forces.
"Forty bodies of our martyrs were recovered yesterday on the Nile. They were taken in pickups belonging to the Janjaweed militia to an unknown destination, "according to a statement issued by the Sudanese Committee of Doctors (SDC), an activist.
The number could not be confirmed independently, but eyewitness accounts reported and published on social media corroborate the claim that the wounded and the dead were thrown into the river.
Protesters fear that the death toll will rise because many people have still not been found.
Activists have accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), also known as the Janjaweed, a group of paramilitaries known for their brutality and human rights abuses, previously perpetrated in Darfur.
RSF was named for a number of deaths in the capital after the sit-in burst by the military, including 10 people were killed on Tuesday. The SDC said two people were killed in Khartoum, three in neighboring Omdurman, and five others killed in White Nile State as demonstrations continued across the country.
Cases of rape by RSF have been reported, including rape by the Janjawid in a hospital near the location where protesters were being treated during the sit-in.
The protesters organized by the Sudanese Professionals' Association call on the military to hand over power to a civilian regime. The army took over after the overthrow of strongman Omar al-Bashir in April.
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) is currently headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and MP Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as "Hemeti", who is also the commander of RSF.
The TMC had promised to negotiate with opposition groups and move to civilian rule within the two-month deadline imposed by the African Union.
"The decision to unleash violence against peaceful protesters is absolutely unjustified and illegal, and a slap for anyone who has continued the dialogue to bring about a transfer of power to the civilian government," said Jehanne Henry, badociate director for the Africa to Human Rights Watch.
The opposition ended negotiations after the sit-in was dispersed with deadly force on Monday. Bourhan announced Tuesday that elections would be held in the next nine months.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement for the North has announced that its deputy leader, Yasir Arman, was arrested on Wednesday in Khartoum.
A spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals' Association reiterated his call for protests.
"We will continue in our demonstrations, our resistance, our strike and our total civil disobedience," said Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa.
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