SUDAN POLITICAL ALERT: US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations – Risch Statement on the violent eradication of Khartoum protest camp by Sudanese security forces
US Senator Jim Risch, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for increased US diplomatic efforts to ensure that regional actors, “like those from the Gulf States,” cease from meddling in Sudan’s transition process “either by publicly engaging with only the military council or providing financial support.”
Risch said the “violent eradication” of the peaceful sit-in site in Khartoum “demonstrates the ruling military council’s lack of commitment to a peaceful transfer of authority to a civilian-led government,” and that the military council “will continue to prevent changes to the US-Sudan relationship by ignoring calls for civilian-led rule and allowing violent attacks on peaceful protesters.