SUDAN NEWS ALERT: New York Times - Killing of Student Protesters in Sudan Sets Off New Unrest, and Worry
The New York Times reports that thousands of student protesters took to the streets across Sudan, demanding an end to the “blood bath”, after four teenage demonstrators and an adult were killed by security forces in El Obeid.
Videos posted on social media showed students across Sudan chanting “no education” until the violence ends. Classes have been suspended across the country, and an evening curfew was imposed in El-Obeid and surrounding North Kordofan state.
The governor of North Kordofan, Gen. Al Sadiq Al Tayeb Abdallah, said the protest in El-Obeid had been “infiltrated” by people who vandalized the offices of two banks.
Protest leaders called for the governor to be removed and questioned over the killings. They also blamed Himedit’s Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, and the Sudanese Professionals Association said “the military council has gotten addicted to shedding the blood of citizens and to committing massacres.”