Darfuri Students attacked in Omdurman

Victims claim to have been attacked by NCP-affiliated students

Dozens of students affiliated to the National Congress Party (NCP) assaulted the Darfuri student Elsaddig Younis at the Omdurman Civil University on Tuesday. The victim was taken to the hospital to receive treatment from the blows he had received to various parts of his body. The victim, a post-graduate student, told radio Dabanga he was sitting with a group of students affiliated to Minawi’s faction at the headquarters of their association when he was attacked by dozens of other students who opened fire in the air, resulting in injuries to his head, hands and the rest of his body. He added that the aim of the attack was to eliminate the members of Minawi’s faction in the university, as it is one of the armed movements opposing the Government.Also in Omdurman, four Darfuri students sustained injuries – among which three critical – when dozens of students affiliated to the NCP attacked Darfuri students inside the headquarters of Union of the Holy Quran University on Tuesday. The Darfuri students had been on strike since 8 in the morning to protest against a new directive refusing them enrollment before the completion of the fees payment. A student told Radio Dabanga that the university administration ended up coming to an agreement with the students to enroll them without fees, as the Vice-President of the Republic had ordered to enroll Darfuri students based on previous agreements. He also stated that the students were planning to end the strike since their demands were met, but that they were surprised by the attack of dozen of students affiliated to the NCP. The aggressors were armed with white weapons, which led to the injury of the secretary-general of the Darfur students’ association in the university Sanosi Salih Sanosi, along with Nasr al Din Suleiman, Elhadi Abakr and Ibrahim Tijani, who were taken to the hospital to receive treatment.