The Alliance for Freedom and Change - the protest movement umbrella group negotiating with the ruling military council - said the shootings were an attempt to 'disturb the breakthrough'.
KHARTOUM - Protest leaders resumed talks with Sudan's military rulers on Tuesday seeking to build on a political breakthrough overshadowed by deadly shootings that Washington blamed on the generals.
The Alliance for Freedom and Change - the protest movement umbrella group negotiating with the ruling military council - said the shootings were an attempt to "disturb the breakthrough". "We put the whole responsibility on the military council for what happened yesterday because it's their direct responsibility to guard and protect the citizens," Mohamed Naji al-Assam, a prominent figure in the movement, told reporters.
The latest round of talks which opened on Monday come after a break in negotiations that saw protest leaders threaten "escalatory measures" to secure their central demand of civilian rule. Protesters gathered in the Abbassiya and Al-Arbaa districts, just across the Nile from the capital, with many chanting slogans against the military council, witnesses told AFP.In Arbaa, some demonstrators blocked roads with burning tyres, a witness said, adding that troops deployed to the area.
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