Frightening of students by police at the school
On 27th September 2016 at 10:00 am, thirty seven (37) police officers headed by a
captain on four vehicles (two with number plates and two without) entered Al-Gadeima24
secondary school in Al-Abbasiya town and started to shoot in air while students were in
class. This scared both the teachers and students. The headmaster went to the captain
and asked him about the reason for the shooting. The captain replied “we had
information that students were planning to demonstrate about Al-Sanadra incident. This
is a message to them, this time we fired on air but, if they dare demonstrate, the fire will
be on their chests after all, you all belong to SPLA-N’’. As a result, five students who
were originally from Al-Sanadra left the school25.
Assault of an elderly man as police watched
On 13thOctober 2016, Haj, Aboud Mohamed, the crier (Muezzin) of Elfaid mosque was
beaten and insulted by Ommda, Almanzoul of Dar-Faied/ Hawazma in front of Alfaid
police post.
Haj/ Aboud Mohamed, 60 years old, is the muezzin of Elfaid mosque and a
farmer/cultivator from Tagali tribe of Nuba ethnics. Ommda Almanzoul Kuku Almanzoul,
52 years old, is the community leader (Ommda) of tribe one of the Arab tribes in South
Kordufan who are mainly cattle keepers.
On 13th October 2016, Haj/ Aboud went to his garden which is half kilometer from town.
When he arrived, he found cattle (about 19 cows) grazing on his farm/garden. Then he
gathered and took them towards the police post where there is a prepared fence (locally
called ZARIBA) for such animals to be kept till the owner appears. Before entering the
cattle to the fence, the owner Ommda, Manzoul came with a stick and instantly started
beating Aboud while insulting him by calling him a SLAVE, associating him/his Tagali
tribe with rebels and swearing that he will drive him out of Elfaid town. As a result, the
Ommda managed to take his cattle and went away. All this happened as the police
officers watched.
In a short while, Aboud decided to report the matter to police officers in order to get
justice but, the police did not record his case. Instead they referred him (informed him to
go) to the prince (higher than Ommda in community leaders‟ hierarchy).
One of the eyewitnesses informed HUDO that “the police didn‟t intervene; they watched
and laughed as Ommda assaulted Haj Aboud”.
Assault of a farmer
On 18 November 2016, while Yousif Omer was at his farm (garden) 14 km west Abu
Kershola, a group of pastoralists with camels ordered him to leave the farm in order to
allow their camels graze on it. He refused to leave and thereafter they hit him with their
sticks till his head was badly bruised/ injured and till he fainted. He was taken to
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Al-Gadeima is an Arabic word means the old
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