DARFUR
The recent crackdown led to at least 118 deaths since June 3, according to a group of doctors linked to the opposition. The government has confirmed 61 deaths.
The crackdown began with a raid on a protest sit-in outside Khartoum's Defence Ministry on June 3 which witnesses said was led by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The RSF, which is led by the council's deputy head, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, grew out of Arab militias that fought in the western region of Darfur during a civil war that began in 2003.
Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the RSF and allied militia of being responsible for the destruction of dozens of villages, unlawful killings and sexual abuse in Darfur over the past year.
Amnesty said tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur's Jebel Marra would become more vulnerable if the U.N. Security Council and the AU were to vote on June 27 to close their joint peacekeeping mission there, UNAMID.
An RSF spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
According to the United Nations, the military council demanded UNAMID hand over its premises to the RSF as part of the mission's planned withdrawal in 2020.
