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welcome to the program it's great to have you with us. this is a nice house hit back against protesters outside the military headquarters. security forces stormed the calm on monday morning in the west to head the country since the overthrow of longtime president bashir in april. violent escalation has ingolf. police and army chased demonstrators through the streets. gunfire and explosions to shut their protests breaking out the peaceful city. but even as they flee the bullets the protesters mocked the army and repeat their demands for change. freedom peace and justice civilian rule this month chant these protestors.

others and circled by the troops plead with the military to hold their fire. peacefully they shout. but since the early morning sudan's capital has been anything but peaceful. protest leaders have stopped cooperation with the transitional military council calling the crackdown a bloody massacre and said i cannot even evacuate the bodies of the dead they are calling them martyrs. hundreds of the injured are being treated in cartoons row care hospital the sudan doctors committee says the death toll is difficult to count and can only rise but the army is meeting determined organize resistance the opposition have thrown up their own roadblocks in response stringing stones and burning tires across the city. but after the dispersal of the sit in we went back to the streets and squares and thank god with the help of the youth we closed the

street and we will close everything again god willing. a day of violence by the army may have broken up the protest a sit in that it seems to have simply dispersed the resistance throughout khartoum . joining me now is michael egan i just returned from sudan from the country. and is in close contact with activists who are monitoring the situation thank you very much. for your time now for a long time the situation was fairly calm until this sudden escalation what are your sources telling you so they're telling me that this morning at about 5 am today monday some forces which appear to be rapid support forces stormed the sit in and started violently dispersing the protesters there my source on the ground was one of one of hundreds gathered around the main clinic at the sit in the heart of

hearts to him he said that they had to run away as fast as they could because 1st they started with tear gas and then started with live ammunition and now he and this group is. now hiding in one of the main hospitals in the surrounding area of the sit in as you said there have been weeks of relative calm i would say complete calm because there have been other more sporadic attempts to disperse the sit in and attack the barricades that surround the sit in area none have been as violent as what we've seen today which was a full scale attempt to completely disperse the sit in so i guess the question is why now when you were there you seemed you know quite tall the other and so for the protests why i talk now i mean the military has says a lot of things in public but then what happened on the ground seems to contradict that agreement and there are number of reasons for this there's there's there are some there's some speculation that the military council is actually not acting in complete unison because you have the head of the military transitional council but han and the deputy. have that you is the head of the route that support forces and

the route that support forces according to eyewitnesses on the ground are the forces that are involved in attacking protesters at the sit in area this is what i would say and just a little bit of background about the route that support for since this is a paramilitary group that operates under the sudanese military times but also sometimes is subject to the authority of the national security authority they have some of their roots go back to the judge and lead militia which have been which are accused of committing atrocities in. in darfur the genocide in darfur which is responsible for the death and of hundreds and hundreds of thousands and there is an opinion out there that they might not necessarily be on the side of a peaceful transition to civilians because then that would eventually the to a situation where they would have to be implicated for their crimes talking about transition as well saddam's a position then put his group by and says it is holding all contacts and decisions with the country's military council now is there any hope now for that peaceful

transition to be so dearly want think it's early to say where the if negotiations will continue of course today the wound is very fresh still the protesters that i've spoken to feel extremely betrayed they were sitting you know some of them sleeping this is the holy month of ramadan the hour at which they were attacked is an hour of speech rather spirituality the sun the sun rise hour so it's early to say but for now that's what the forces are saying that they will help negotiations i think if negotiations are hosted completely and we come at a complete stand still we would be. we would not know what the next steps would be but one would hope that somehow the parties are able to come back to the negotiating table just to avoid the shedding of a more blood on the streets of sudan i guess only time will tell i over him thank you very much. and today is well bicycle day so where better to talk than my home country got off that's a project that's trying to raise funds to support young women who want to join

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