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Sudanese police threw tear gas at scores of protesters on Sunday demanding an independent investigation into the deadly raid that took place in June during a sit-in in Khartoum, despite an investigation that identified eight officers involved.
The joint investigation by prosecutors and the ruling military council in Sudan showed that security forces, including a feared general of paramilitary rapid support forces, had participated in the raid on the protest camp on 3 June. although no order from their superiors has ordered it.
The eight accused officers are accused of crimes against humanity, said Saturday the chief investigator of Fatah al Rahman Saeed.
However, the leaders of the demonstration rejected the findings of the investigation, claiming that it exonerated the military council and gave a death toll well below their own numbers.
Doctors linked to the protest said the June 3 raid killed 127 people and left many wounded.
Saeed said the investigators found that only 17 people were killed on June 3, while another 87 died between that day and June 10.
The Sudanese Professionals Association, the main protest group that was the first to lead the campaign against the now ousted leader, Omar al-Bashir, dismissed the investigation.
The investigation of Saeed "was ordered by the military council, this calls into question its integrity since the military council itself is accused in this case," he said.
On Sunday, dozens of protesters chanted the slogan of the protests that had been going on for months: "Freedom, peace, justice!" Protesters said the riot police quickly dispersed the crowd with the help of tear gas.
Protesters threw stones at the police, the witnesses said.
The country's leading generals insisted that they had not ordered the dispersal of the sit-in, which protesters had organized on April 6 to seek support from the army to overthrow the long-time leader, Omar al-Bashir.
Bashir was ousted on April 11, but protesters remained in the protest camp to ask the military council that replaced him to cede power to civilians.
General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who heads RSF and is also deputy head of the ruling military council, has always denied the involvement of his men in the crackdown that has provoked the indignation of the international community.
But Saeed said that a RSF general had ordered a colonel to disperse the sit-in while a separate security force was cleaning up a nearby area known as Colombia.
"They directed the forces (…) inside the occupation zone and ordered them to get off their vehicles and bad the protesters," Saeed said.
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