El Fasher students’ demand met after campus shooting in North Darfur

Students at the University of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, have handed a memorandum of demands to the director, following a shooting incident on the campus Monday.As Radio Dabanga reported, four students were injured when a group affiliated to the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), opened fire on them.According to witnesses the “NCP students” were armed and dressed in military uniforms as part of an “awareness campaign”. The shooting was prompted when the victims chanted anti-NCP slogans: “The University is free, military out!”Immediately following the shooting, students staged a sit-in protest at the university. They demanded that the administration hold the university guards as well as the Dean of Student Affairs accountable for allowing the NCP students to enter the campus carrying firearms and dressed in military uniforms.The students also demanded the NCP students who fired at their peers should be held accountable and banned from the university grounds.As the director has agreed to all of the students’ demands, classes have resumed at the university. He assured the students that he “will solve all the problems including the activity of NCP students on the campus”.He would also ensure that the wounded were treated, and that a committee would be formed to investigate the incident.Photo: El Fasher University logoRelated: Four students injured in shooting at El Fasher University, North Darfur (21 May 2013)