Sudanese police breaks up demos in capital, Kordofan
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April 4, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese police on Monday reacted to two
demonstrations by student activists in the capital Khartoum and by
hundreds of unemployed youth in the flashpoint region of Kordofan, in
the latest crackdown against dissent fueled by worsening economic
conditions and revolts being witnessed in some Arab countries.
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Sudanese anti-riot police dispersing demonstrators in downtown
Khartoum (FILE PHOTO)
A string of small anti-government protests in north Sudan over the
last two month have failed to gain enough traction and were swiftly
squashed by the police supported by members of the country’s National
Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) who arrested dozens of
activists.
Eye-witnessed told Sudan Tribune that anti-riot police units
intervened to break up clashes that erupted on Monday at Khartoum
University’s main campus between students calling for regime-change
and those loyal to the ruling National Congress Party (NCP).
Video footages released by anti-government groups on the
social-networking website Facebook have shown a handful of students
clapping their hands and chanting anti-government slogans as they
marched towards the main gate of Khartoum University campus in
downtown Khartoum.
According to ST’s witnesses, NCP-affiliated students attacked the
protesting students with metal rods as state security agents arrested
and beat 20 students, some of whom sustained injuries, the sources
added.
Students allied with the NCP are normally supplied with light weapons
and can often act with impunity to squelch any anti-government
activities in Sudanese universities.
Meanwhile, hundreds of jobless university graduates demonstrated for
nearly two hours in Al-Fula town in the country’s flashpoint region of
Kordofan against lack of employment opportunities.
Eye witnesses reported that the police had tried to break up the
demonstrators using tear gas and batons but the protestors clashed
with police who eventually had to allow the protest to proceed.
The oil-producing region of Kordofan is highly volatile and dominated
in part by the well-armed Arab nomadic tribe of Messiriya which was
used as a proxy militia by Khartoum during the years of civil war with
south Sudan which voted to secede from the north in a referendum this
month.
(ST)
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