25 injured in confrontations between Islamic university groups
May 16, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – Around 25 students were injured during violent clashes over university elections between students loyal to the ruling National Congress party (NCP) and the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) at the Holy Quran University in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Monday.
Eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune that some of the students sustained serious injuries, adding that the police dispersed the two groups and put an end to the violence.
The clashes led to suspend indefinitely the electoral process at the university, as the two Islamist student groups traded accusations over the responsibility for the violence and the suspension of elections.
Mohmaed Hamad Mohamed, a PCP student, told Sudan Tribune that the Monday incidents occurred after NCP student prevented them from handing over their electoral list.
“The National Congress students started to throw Molotov bombs from the top of the communication college building at the students at the Deanship Students” Affairs,” he added.
However, NCP Student Political Secretary in Khartoum State, Yassin al-Tahir, accused the PCP students of planning to undermine the electoral process at the university.
He told Sudan Tribune that” the Popular Congress failed to introduce 40- student list, a matter that led its members to foil the election and attack the students”.
The Sudanese universities have been witnessing a rise in the acts of bloody violence between students a thing that has caused the killing of two students last April and suspending of study at three universities of Khartoum, Omdurman Ahlia and Kordofan.
The Popular Congress Party of the late Islamist leader, Hassan Al-Turabi, split from the ruling National Congress Party in 1999, and has been in the opposition since then, before the 2014 rapprochement with the government. .
(ST)