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Khartoum: Fierce Clashes between Security Forces
& Students in Higher
Education Institutions - Security Special Forces descend on the University of Khartoum by helicopter By Mehamed Hassan Awadla Oct 26, 2002, 10:48pm Khartoum: Fierce Clashes between Security Forces & Students in Higher Education Institutions - Security Special Forces descend on the University of Khartoum by helicopter By Mehamed Hassan Awadla [View Arabic Text] KHARTOUM: Saturday Oct 26. (Special Report):- Violence erupted in the University of Khartoum on Tuesday October 22, when students protested decision by the administration to suspend the long promised union elections, which had already been delayed for more than one month following a five year old ban. The immediate reason given for the delay by the University administration was that some 60 eligible voters are still engaged in waging Jihad against opposition forces in the south and eastern parts of the country. A number of students at the University of Khartoum were injured and parked cars torched. Witnesses said police resorted to the use of helicopter to gain access to the well-barricaded University of Khartoum premises. Once inside the campus, security forces used brute force and tear gas against the students in the lecture halls and dormitories causing numerous injuries and property damage. Student sources insist that the University of Khartoum administration had feared a landslide victory for supporters of the opposition umbrella organization, the National Democratic Alliance. "The university administration says elections for the student union cannot be held now because there are students still fighting in southern and eastern Sudan but we say the time of the elections has come and they must be held," one third-year geography student explained to news agencies. The students were also angry that the university administration had banned celebrations to mark the anniversary of �1964 October Revolution�, the popular uprising that overthrew the country's first military dictatorship after independence. On the following day, Wednesday, October 23, protest spread to other institutions as security forces detained students in University of Khartoum, Ahlia University and the College of Education in Omdurman. Students� supporters of opposition political parties began their protest against the earlier forcible entry of the riot police to the University of Khartoum. After an impromptu rally, the students marched to the office of the University of Khartoum Vice-Chancellor to hand him a memorandum demanding his resignation for permitting the police to go onto campus, witnesses said. Failing to meet with him, they intensified their protest against the University administration and against the government and clashed again with riot police, who responded with tear gas and batons. Security pickup trucks were seen loaded with arrested students as protest spread from Khartoum elsewhere. In the national capital of Omdurman where students in the private Ahlia University and the College of Education demonstrated in solidarity with the University of Khartoum. Student demonstrations have continued for the fourth day. On Saturday 26 October, _protests persisted in the three towns of Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman and are no longer confined to the campuses of higher education institutions. To-day, students from Sudan University for Science & Technology (central Khartoum), Shambat Faculty of Agriculture in Khartoum North and secondary schools in Khartoum North and Omdurman, demonstrated until 4 p.m. Notably for the first time in years slogans calling for change and denouncing the NIF regime appeared on the walls of many streets. Sources in Khartoum are trying to compile a full list of detainees despite the shroud of secrecy imposed by the government. Among those arrested on Tuesday 22/10/02 are the following students from the University of Khartoum: - 1. Hisham Ali, Third year student, civil engineering. 2. Ahmed Al Amir Mohamed, third year student, Mechanical Engineering. He is wounded (bullet in his right leg and was arrested at Khartoum Hospital.. 3. Musaab Abulhassan, ffirst year student, engineering. 4. Talal Abdulrahman, third year student, civil engineering. 5. Ahmed al Azhari (Al Zaeem). 6. Yasir Mohamed Abdelrahman. Names of students arrested from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Khartoum on Wednesday 23/10/02: 1. Abdullah Hassan Gaafar, fourth year student, Civil Engineering. 2. Digheim Osman Hassan, second year student, Electricity Dept. 3. Mohamed Abdullah, second year, Department of Survey. 4. Alrashid Tamim Al Dar (was beaten at the university by security forces and he was bleeding, and lost consciousness and was then taken to the offices of the security (his name is absent from hospital lists until a few hours ago). 5. Mutasim Ahmed Mohamed , fifth year student, Chemistry Department, wounded (bullet in his shoulder). 6. Abbas El Jack, second year, Civil Engineering. 7. Abu Median Hamdan, fifth year, Chemistry Department. 8. Mahmoud Satti, second year, Electricity Department. 9. El Naeim Ali, fifth year, Faculty of Agriculture. 10. El Shafie Ibrahim, fourth year, Architecture Department. 11. Omer Hassan, second year, Civil Engineering. 12. Mohamed El Tayib, second year, Civil Engineering. In an attempt to prevent the spread of student demonstrations outside the capital region, six students were arrested in Kassala. Three from the Democratic Unionist Party and two are said to belong to the Communist Party of the Sudan. In another development, eighteen Eritrean youth living in Kassala since childhood have been arrested, and it seems that the government intends to introduce them to the media as �prisoners of war� in order to substantiate its claim of an Eritrean invasion. � Copyright 2002 Shaebia.org The Mulindwas
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