Sudan protesters reject general's call for talks

Sudan protesters had dismissed calls for peace talks with the ruling generals. The military's violent crackdown has killed 60 this week.

Khartoum: Protests continued in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Wednesday as protest leaders dismissed calls for talks with the ruling generals.

They said that the military cannot be serious about negotiations as they kept shooting and killing protesters.

The military's violent crackdown has killed 60 this week.

Earlier on Wednesday, the head of the military council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, said that the generals were ready to resume negotiations and that there would be 'no restrictions' in talks with the leaders behind the months-long street protests.

Burhan had earlier cut the negotiations and cancelled all agreed-on points between the military and the Forces for Declaration of Freedom and Change, an alliance which represents the protesters.

Mohammed Yousef al-Mustafa, a spokesman for the Sudanese Professionals Association, which is also part of the alliance and which is leading the demonstrations, said that the protesters "totally reject" Burhan's call.

In April, the movement succeeded in forcing the military to remove Sudan's longtime strongman, Omar al-Bashir.

It then kept its sit-in going, demanding that the generals who took power hand over authority to civilians.