KHARTOUM - Sudanese police fired tear gas Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators marched on a prominent Khartoum square to honour comrades killed in the months-long protest movement that has rocked the country.
As they marched, the demonstrators shouted slogans that have been the rallying cries of the uprising that led to the toppling in April of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir: "Civilian rule, civilian rule!" and "Freedom, peace, justice!""The rallies are a tribute to those honourable martyrs of the December revolution," the Sudanese Professionals Association said in a statement.
One onlooker said that many who arrived at the Green Square were in tears as they chanted slogans remembering those killed in the protests. But protesters continued taking to the streets against the military council that took power in his place.
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