# RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 3 June 2019, Human Rights Watch recorded, Sudanese security forces led by the Rapid Support Forces opened fire at dawn on the sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum, killing scores of protesters and injuring hundreds. A later HRW report found at least 120 killed and more than 900 injured between 3 and 18 June and said the crimes could amount to crimes against humanity. A TMC health-ministry figure of 61 killed on 3 June is a neighbouring official tally.

## Context

Hemedti commanded RSF and was TMC deputy. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan chaired the TMC and is live. Doctors’ groups reported 128 on the day. Those tallies disagree. This page does not invent a unique integer.

3 June dispersal; 4 June HRW note; 17 November 2019 HRW report. Stored as one 3 June 2019 Fact. Keep RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force on 2019-06-03 separate from neighbouring [Hemedti](/people/hemedti) instruments.

The commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces can order a sit-in dispersal, move columns into Khartoum, and impose a siege. He does not write Human Rights Watch reports, OHCHR El Fasher notes, or IPC famine classifications.

## Evidence and sources

Human Rights Watch carries the official instrument or communique. Human Rights Watch records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is the owned RSF-war driver: a completed RSF-led lethal dispersal of a civilian sit-in.

## What is established and what is not

Established: HRW recorded RSF-led forces opening fire on the Khartoum sit-in on 3 June 2019. Tallies of the dead are contested across doctors, ministry, and later HRW research.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Sharing TMC membership with Burhan is not a reason to drop 3 June 2019.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force, not a later speech about RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force on 2019-06-03 is not a licence to treat every later Human Rights Watch communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average RSF-led forces disperse the Khartoum sit-in with lethal force into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He commanded RSF. Sharing TMC membership with Burhan is not a reason to drop 3 June 2019. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Hemedti: https://factrail.ai/people/hemedti

## Drivers

- Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space
- Hemedti RSF war: https://factrail.ai/drivers/hemedti-rsf-war

## Sources

- https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/17/sudan-justice-needed-protester-killings
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/06/04/sudan-halt-attacks-protesters

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sd-hemedti-june3-2019