Darfuri students at the University of Khartoum have threatened to boycott their studies if the authorities do not immediately start an investigation into the killing of student Ali Abakar Musa Idris on 11 March.
The students consider the murder of Idris a national issue, the Darfur Students’ Association said in a press statement on Sunday.
The association condemned the use of excessive violence against peacefully demonstrating students at the University of Khartoum, which led to the death of Ali Abakar Musa Idris, and the wounding of several other students.
It also denounced the “systematic targeting of Darfuri university students and the denial of their access to the students’ dormitories.”
On 11 March this year, Darfuri students at the University of Khartoum arranged a meeting about the militia attacks against civilians in Darfur, after which they went out in a peaceful march with the aim of handing a memorandum against the violence in Darfur to the UN representative in Khartoum.
At the start of the demonstration, security forces and the police entered the campus, using tear gas and live bullets to disperse the protesters. Ali Abakar Musa Idris, third year student at the Faculty of Economics, was shot dead. On 14 March the security forces stormed the dormitories of the female students of the university, and forced them to leave.
File photo: Darfuri students at the University of Khartoum discussing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacks against civilians in Darfur, before going out in a peaceful demonstration, 11 March 2014