Sudan Rally Shows Lingering Anger Over 2019 Massacre

KHARTOUM - Thousands of protesters in Sudan’s capital demanded justice from the government this week over a 2019 massacre in Khartoum in which more than 100 people died.

The protesters Thursday called for the government to hold the Rapid Support Forces, a security unit, accountable for violently suppressing sit-in protests two years ago. On Wednesday night, Sudan’s military began restricting access to the area surrounding the military headquarters where the killings took place. In a press release addressing the anniversary, the prime minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, described what he called a complicated relationship with the country’s various security agencies, which the constitution says are under the authority of his military counterpart.