SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan activists: 4 shot dead amid marches against violence

1/8/19: Multiple sources – Sudan activists: 4 shot dead amid marches against violence

• AP, by Noha Elhennawy

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz and Ahmed Tolba

• AFP

 The Sudan Doctors’ Committee said that at least four Sudanese demonstrators were shot dead by live ammunition on Thursday amid mass marches in Khartoum and elsewhere across Sudan denouncing state violence against pro-democracy protesters.

 The marches were held to demand justice for the killing of at least six people — including four students — by security forces during student protests in a central province Monday.

 A statement from protest leaders called the marches a “safety valve” and “our way to bring culprits to justice, avenge martyrs and to ensure the transfer of power to an interim civilian government.” The group stressed the peaceful nature of the rallies, but warned that armed infiltrators might slip in among the crowd to instigate violence.

 Meanwhile, the military council blamed said it arrested 7 Rapid Support Forces militia who responded in “an isolated manner” for the deaths in Al Obeid on Monday which caused Thursday’s marches.