Sudanese students offers reward for head of UN envoy

Mar 7, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — In a new development of the continual mobilization against the UN takeover in Darfur, a pro-ruling party student organization said it would reward Pronk’s head.

According to AL-Watan daily newspaper, president of the General Union of Sudanese Students Mohamed Abdallah Sheikh Idriss has announced a 100,000 US dollars’ reward for the head of the UN representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk.

About 200 Sudanese students demonstrated on Tuesday urging the United Nations to leave their country and calling it a colonial force, days ahead of a decision to deploy U.N. troops to the violent Darfur region.

“This is our message to you Jan Pronk: Get out of our country, leave immediately,” Sheikh Idriss, told the chanting crowd. Pronk is the top U.N. envoy in Sudan.

Sheikh Idriss warned that all the students of Darfur stood against any foreign intervention pointing out that in the universities of Khartoum alone there were more than 9,000 students, who were all time bombs ready to go off in the face of tyranny.

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