Following the killing of at least seven demonstrators, and injury to more than 100 others, by security forces suppressing the January 17 March of Millions in Khartoum, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has lamented that repeated calls by the EU and international community on Sudan’s military authorities over the past months, to refrain from violence against peaceful demonstrators, have “once again fallen on deaf ears”.