Fleeing the hell of Khartoum... One death is not enough.

El-Zayn Osman
The war they escaped from in Khartoum haunts them in places they thought was safe. In far eastern Sudan, tear gas reappears after an absence. This time, it was launched by the police pursuant to the Governers decision to evacuate certain areas of accommodation for displaced persons in the city, specifically the student boards of the University of Gedaref in order to arrange for students to return to classrooms.

It appeared that those fleeing the death of the Khartoum War had another escape to avoid death. This time in the areas to which they were displaced, in the far eastern city of Qadarif, resulting in the asphyxiation of four children, who were taken to hospital after police threw tear gas to force a number of displaced persons to evacuate the citys student boards of an estimated 779 people without providing them with an alternative.

The governor of the state has previously issued a decision to remove displaced persons from the states schools and educational institutions in preparation for the resumption of studies that were interrupted in the Sudan following the outbreak of war in mid-April.

The behaviour of the Gedaref State authorities in dealing with displaced persons has provoked dissatisfaction. The citys resistance committees issued a statement condemning the approach of violence used by the police in implementing the Governments decision regarding evacuees of displaced persons shelters.

In the context of a statement by "Emergency Lawyers", an entity supporting the movement to resist the 25 October coup d état, he condemned what he called the barbaric behaviour and indiscriminate decisions of the Nile River State and Qadarif Governments against displaced persons fleeing the war hell in Khartoum. The statement, a copy of which was obtained by "citizens", criticized the decisions to evacuate schools from displaced persons without specifying alternatives and behaviour to suppress protests by regular agencies. She described the decision to evacuate unthinkable, especially since the war was still burning in Khartoum.

Schools, together with a number of educational institutions in the Sudans safe cities, have been transformed into temporary accommodation for thousands of displaced persons living in poor and complex conditions. Even these schools are threatened with losing them because some states have announced the start of the school year and the resumption of school. These resolutions have already been rejected by the Sudanese Teachers Committee and set out conditions that must be available for the resumption of the educational process, notably the cessation of war and the restoration of security.

Yesterday, The Governor of Khartoum is pending the start of studies in the capital city with the cessation of war, at a time when he announced that students would be allowed to continue their education outside the state and attend educational institutions..

Teaching staff were subject to returning to work by leaving the displaced, but after providing alternative accommodation, as well as the Governments payment of accumulated workers salaries since the war. Of course, the general educational environment is created, including the evacuation of schools from their new population.

There seems to be a deep link between the continuation of the war and the return of students to schools and universities, where the outbreak of conflict has led to the closure of schools in all of the Sudan. It is a link that quickly sparked controversy between two groups, one that considers it necessary to return to school and one that rejects the move because of the lack of objective conditions for education itself. They use the phrase "no education in a painful situation" here. They further argue that some guardians insistence on resuming the study is merely an attempt by them to convey the message to the de facto Government that the situation is secure and under control.

The team refusing to resume the study basically proceeds from a position of solidarity with those affected by the Khartoum War and thus condemns the polices behaviour in dealing with violence in the evictions of displaced persons from their places of residence, where they were forced to remain in circumstances in which they had no hands.

In the scene of the protests of displaced persons in Gedaref and their confrontation with the guardians of the state, the Sudanese follow a video of a man addressing the Governor with the phrase "Khartoum back", summing up everything that happens that their presence here is compelled by the war that the Government has to resolve with arms or negotiate. The man here goes beyond convictions of police violence in taking them out of the interior towards condemning the main reason for their presence here, the war.