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Sudan's ruling military has acknowledged that security forces committed violations when they moved in to disperse a protest sit-in camp outside the military headquarters in Khartoum last week.
The spokesman of the ruling military council, Gen. Shams Eddin Kabashi, told reporters at a news conference late Thursday that an investigation was underway and that several military officers were held in custody for alleged "deviation" from the action plan set by military leaders.
Kabashi did not elaborate on the violations beyond describing them as "painful and outrageous".
Over 100 people were killed in the capital and across Sudan in a sweeping crackdown last week, according to protest organizers. Protesters also said more than 40 bodies were pulled from the Nile River in Khartoum and taken away by security forces.
"We feel sorry for what happened," said Kabashi. "We will show no leniency and we will hold accountable anyone, regardless of their rank, if proven to have committed violations."
The dispersal of the sit-in was an alarming turn in the standoff between the protesters and the military, which removed President Omar al-Bashir from power in April after a months-long popular uprising against his 30-year rule.
Rights groups expressed alarm over the violence.
On Thursday, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten expressed "grave concern" over reports of mass rapes of protesters and female medical personnel by security forces and militias.
UN experts on Wednesday said they were concerned Sudan is sliding into a "human rights abyss" in the aftermath of the security forces' deadly clampdown. The experts, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, called for an independent investigation into violations against peaceful protesters in Sudan.
Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change, a coalition of political groups representing protesters, insists on an international investigation - a demand Kabahi strongly rejected.
Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch urged the Sudanese military to restore access to the internet, which has been blocked since the start of the clampdown.
Separately, Kabahi dismissed the death toll announced by the Sudanese Doctors Central Committee, a group associated with the protesters, as misleading and incendiary.
The group had said 108 people were killed and more than 500 were wounded. The military-controlled health ministry later put the death toll at 61.
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