Witnesses say the assault was led by the feared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who have their origins in the notorious Janjaweed militia unleashed in the conflict in the western region of Darfur in 2003 and 2004.
"In diplomacy, dialogue is everything and pre-conditions for dialogue are generally not a good idea. But after what happened on 3 June, these ... conditions for returning to talks seem eminently reasonable," Britain's ambassador to Khartoum Irfan Siddiq wrote on Twitter.
On Saturday several roads were still blocked by barricades made of rocks, tree trunks and tyres put up by protesters after the crackdown, witnesses said.The protest site outside army headquarters where thousands rallied for weeks was however out of bounds, with troops and RSF paramilitaries surrounding it from all sides to keep demonstrators at bay.
Protest slogans -"freedom, peace, justice" and"civilian rule, civilian rule" - which once rang out across Khartoum are nowhere to be heard. The repression of the protest movement"aims to psychologically break the population of Khartoum" Sudan expert Marc Lavergne of the French National Centre for Scientific Research told AFP this week.
"The people in the streets all have an education, aspirations of democracy, of human rights, freedom."
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