Khartoum massacre
The Khartoum massacre occurred on 3 June 2019, when the armed forces of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, headed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the immediate successor organisation to the Janjaweed militia, used heavy gunfire and tear gas to disperse a sit-in by protestors in Khartoum, killing over 100 people, with difficulties in estimating the actual numbers. At least forty of the bodies had been thrown in the River Nile. Hundreds of unarmed civilians were injured, hundreds of unarmed citizens were arrested, many families were terrorised in their home estates across Sudan, and the RSF raped more than 70 women and men. The Internet was almost completely blocked in Sudan in the days following the massacre, making it difficult to estimate the number of victims.
| Khartoum massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of Sudanese Revolution | |
Khartoum Khartoum (Sudan) | |
| Location | Khartoum, Sudan |
| Date | 3 June 2019 |
| Target | Sudanese protesters |
Attack type | Mass murder |
| Deaths | 128+ |
| Injured | 650+ injured and 70 raped |
| Perpetrators | Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Janjaweed militias and TMC security forces |
| Motive | Dispersing sit in camp |
In October 2019, during the 39-month planned transition to democracy, an official Khartoum massacre investigation commission was created as required under Article 7. (16) of the Sudanese August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration, under the authority of transition period Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The commission is led by human rights lawyer Nabil Adib or Nabil Adib Abdalla and with no female members, to the objection of The No to Oppression against Women Initiative.