Sudanese demonstrate for Palestinians in Gaza
January 22, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — Several hundred Sudanese demonstrated Tuesday in front of a U.N. building here to show their solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and demand the U.N. intervene in the crisis.
The protesters, many of whom were students, shouted slogans including “No for the killing of Palestinians. No for the killing of civilians.” They also handed over a letter to the U.N. office addressed to U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, calling on him to try to end the Israeli blockade against the Palestinians.
Student demonstrators affiliated with the Khartoum State Students Union, which is controlled by pro-Islamist groups, dressed in their school uniforms and shouted “Down, down USA” and “Allahu akbar,” which means “God is great” in Arabic.
“We have taken part in this demonstration to express our discontent with the way the world community is standing by while Palestinian civilians are being massacred, humiliated and killed by the Zionists” Fatahi Khalil, who heads the pro-government Organization for the Support of the People, told The Associated Press.
Riot police guarded the U.N. compound, and demonstrators were kept at bay during the hour-long protest. After Khalil and student representatives handed the letter to the office, the demonstrators dispersed peacefully.
On Tuesday, Israel delivered fuel for Gaza’s power plant, partially lifting the blockade it had imposed on the Strip last week in response to an increase in rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. Gaza City plunged into darkness Sunday night after its power plant was shut down because it didn’t have enough fuel to operate, cutting off electricity to about one-third of Gaza’s residents.
The latest round of Israel-Gaza fighting erupted last week, amid a spike in rocket fire on Israeli border communities, and prompted Israel to seal the territory and cut off fuel supplies. International aid groups have warned they may have to suspend food distribution to hundreds of thousands of people by the end of the week for lack of truck fuel.
(AP)
Lat Dak Nyaroah
Sudanese demonstrate for Palestinians in Gaza
Look at arabs! how can one see bad behaviour of another person leaving his own? The world is now so concern about the lives of Darfurians who are being killed daily by Sudan Government and arabs dip their heads in sand pretending they do not see any thing wrong going on in the Country.
Please, Ban Ki moon, let you not be confused by these so called arabs. Put your head up and do what is just for the well being of all. The main aim of those who carried out that demonstration is to confuse International communities and UN not to concentrate on what is happening in Darfur now.
If those demonstrators are just, why they never conducted same demonstration to stop the killing of Darfurians by Sudan Government?
Thanks,
Lat Daknyaroah,
Student in Kenya Methodist University.
John Mou
Sudanese demonstrate for Palestinians in Gaza
Once again, the Janjaweeds came out on Tuesday in a demonstration to show their solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and demand the U.N. intervene in the crisis as I read it on the Sudantribune website.
That is supposed to be as a feeling of humanity. However, the question is, when will the Khartoum Janjaweeds shout the same slogans such as “No for the killing of Darfurians. Or No for the killing of civilians”?
When will the Khartoum Janjaweeds shout “Down, down Al-Bashir and Allahu Akbar” to his NCP policies?
When will they do the same and hand over a letter to the U.N. office addressed to U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, calling on him to end the Janjaweed atrocities against the Darfurians?
When will they shout no to the appointment of the accused of war crimes Musa Hillal as Adviser to the Federal Government?
The Bin Laden oriented people forgot that the UN they asked to intervene in Palestine is the same UN that is trying to bring the hybrid force to the region of Darfur so as to end the suffering of the people which they always reject.
All these shows that something deed to be done to safe the future of the Sudan since the students who are supposed to think well are now biased and only think about Arab race.