Around 100,000 demonstrators marched through the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Wednesday in a government-sponsored protest against a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to violence in the Darfur region.

The protesters warned against any Western military intervention to end the 17-month-old conflict in Darfur, which has killed at least 30,000 people and left 2.2 million in urgent need of food, medicine and shelter.

The resolution adopted by the security council last Thursday threatened unspecified sanctions against Sudan's government if it failed to take steps in 30 days to disarm Arab militias accused of waging a brutal campaign to drive people of African origin out of the region.

Over 100,0000 Sudanese protesters march in Khartoum(AP PHOTO)

Sudan's leaders are warning that the country could join Afghanistan and Iraq as deadly battlefields if Western nations continue to interfere in Sudanese affairs.

"Darfur will be a foreign graveyard," read one placard spotted by a BBC correspondent.

The demonstrators called reports of genocide in Darfur a western lie and warned against intervention.

"We don't want any foreigners in Sudan, British or American or whatever," one man shouted. "Sudan is for Sudanese."

A group of young people was also seen wearing black shirts and red headbands marked "martyrs brigades."

Sudan's foreign minister said the only chance of meeting the UN deadline for Arab militias to lay down their arms is if rebel forces in Darfur start to disarm as well.