Khartoum, Sudan
Massacre of protesters: Sudanese security forces stormed a camp occupied by pro-democracy protesters in Khartoum this week, killing at least 35 people and injuring hundreds more in what survivors said was a spree of murder, arson, and rape. The troops were linked to the Janjaweed militia, notorious for committing atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region in the early 2000s. The ruling military council, which ousted longtime President Omar al-Bashir in April after months of protests by activists, has offered to hold elections in nine months. But the opposition says its civil disobedience campaign will continue until the military hands power to a civilian-led interim government. The massacre, said opposition leader Madani Abbas Madani, “was a systematic and planned attempt to impose repression on the Sudanese people.”