Sudanese police forces fired tear gas at over 1,000 mourners at the funeral procession on Wednesday, March 13, of a Junior University of Khartoum Economics major student who was killed by government forces on Tuesday, March 12. Ali Abakar Musa's death heralded a new bout of protests marked by the new shoot-to-kill policies utilized by government forces to quell protests on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sudan and the renewed crisis in Darfur. Protesters marched in fury chanting slogans that ranged from "the killing of a student, the killing of a nation" and for the "downfall of the regime" while avenging the death of a student and calling for a new revolution against Bashir's ruling regime.
Musa was killed by security forces on Tuesday afternoon in a clash between police forces and protesters at Khartoum University. The protests started following a rally by the Darfur Student Association who demanded the attention of the U.N. by writing an open letter addressing the critical situation in Darfur. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported 55,000 people displaced from Saraf Omra in West Darfur since February 28 following fighting between "paramilitary troops and government forces." More than 50 villages were burned and 45,000 others have been displaced in villages around Darfur. 15,000 have fled North Darfur after an attack by the government's armed forces. Their demands included urging the U.N. and Security Council "to take all [the] necessary measures to stop the bloodshed in the Darfur region." They also demanded the allocation of African Union and U.N. peacekeeping troops to protect civilians in those areas. Among the list of demands was the inclusion of SAF's Major General Abbas Abdul Aziz to the list of those indicted by the ICC in a renewed investigation in the crimes committed against civilians in Darfur. This letter came after the UNAMID's call for the end to the fighting in North Darfur on Monday, March ...
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