A week ago [Dec. 7], dozens of students from Al-Jazeera University, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Khartoum, camped in front of the morgue of Medani Hospital in Wad-Medani, the capital of Al-Jazeera state, guarding the corpses of two students. 

Earlier that day, the bodies of the two first-year agricultural-studies students, Adil Hamad and Mohamed Younis, were found in a sewage pond not far from the university.

"On Wednesday [Dec. 5], six students went missing after a forum at the university to discuss the plight of Darfuri students was attacked by security officers," said Mohamed Ahmed, a student at Al-Jazeera University who was waiting outside the morgue. 

Last week, students of Darfuri origin protested against the decision of the university's president to make Darfuri students pay tuition fees. Darfuri students were exempted from such fees in the 2006 Darfur Peace Agreement. In the 2011 Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), article 14 on universities and state-run higher education institutions states that "all students who are offspring of IDPs [Internally Displaced Persons] and refugees from Darfur states duly admitted by the admission committee to national universities shall be exempted from educational fees for five years."