Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Dormitories Burn, Activists Killed In Sudan Crackdown on Student Protest « Student Activism

Dormitories Burn, Activists Killed In Sudan Crackdown on Student Protest « Student Activism


Dormitories Burn, Activists Killed In Sudan Crackdown on Student Protest

Student protest has been swelling in Sudan since the Friday discovery of the bodies of four student activists from Darfur, with reports now saying that one university’s dorms have been burned to the ground today.
The four students were reportedly found dead in a canal after their participation in a sit-in protesting Al-Gazira University’s refusal to waive their tuition fees as mandated by peace agreements signed in 2006 and 2010.
Eleven students were arrested in the anti-tuition protests on December 2, but the demonstrations continued.Witnesses say that when police broke up a sit-in on December 5, they pushed protesters toward the canal