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Female Sudan University Students in New Protest
2013-10-02
[An Nahar] Female university students in Sudan protested for a second day running on Tuesday, their campus president said, on the ninth day of anti-government demonstrations that sparked a deadly crackdown last week.

The protest, with 100 students at most, was "on a smaller scale" than Monday's rally, Ahfad University for Women president Gasim Badri told Agence La Belle France Presse.

On Monday police lobbed tear gas into the campus in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. They did not intervene in the latest rally, Badri said.

The intensity of demonstrations has eased since last week when thousands erupted into the streets after fuel prices jumped by more than 60 percent.

Authorities say 34 people died during the protests, many of them in poor neighborhoods, which were the worst in the history of President Omar al-Bashir
Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it.
's 24-year rule.

Activists and international human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
groups say at least 50 people were bumped off, most of them in the greater Khartoum area.
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