Dozens of students stuck at the University of Khartoum, since the morning of the bloody military clashes in Sudan, did not find a way other than to hide the body of a colleague who was killed by a stray bullet, inside the university campus and in front of the classrooms, for fear of his body decomposing after all attempts to transfer it abroad failed, and they see in this a new chapter of their The tragedy of the raging war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.
After 4 days they lived under a hail of bullets and the sound of cannons and planes, all of the 89 people stranded at the University of Khartoum were able to go out to their homes with a truce entered into by both sides of the war on Monday evening, but they left their colleague “Khaled Al-Taqi” behind them, bent his right hand in his final resting place, to continue his eternal love for the mother of universities. Sudan, where he has been studying for 20 years.
Completely two decades completed by the late in the halls of the University of Khartoum, wandering between the classrooms and the neighboring student residences as he struggles with the curse of academic stumbling that haunts him year after year in pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts degree, and days after he passed the final exams leading to his graduation, death snatched him as if he had taken his tricks To stay within the walls of the university that he loves and prefers even over his family, according to his colleagues.
And his colleague in the Father’s College, Muhammad Abbas, tells Sky News the story of Khaled Al-Taqi’s struggle in his scientific career, which he started stumbling from the secondary school certificate exam that he took three times until he obtained his qualification to enter the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum in the year 2004 AD, after which he was chased by a series of academic stumbling, and this was The thing annoyed his colleagues, who kept discussing it constantly to raise his spirit, but he used to respond to them with a smile, and wondered why you are in a hurry?
Khaled was not in a hurry to leave the University of Khartoum, which its students call “beautiful and impossible,” contrary to the pity of his colleagues who graduated years ago and engaged in their practical life. Before that.
The 19-year-old was enough to make “al-Taqi” a prominent scholar at the University of Khartoum, and formed a link for the communication of generations and study groups in the mother of Sudanese universities. He is a well-known social, sports and political activist, and has supportive positions for democratic forces through a student rally against the previous government, according to his colleague Muhammad Abbas.
And Muhammad Abbas adds, “He was a man who was distinguished by simplicity, joviality, and a mystic, and one of those who formed our personalities at the University of Khartoum, as he was loyal to his friends. He left us with great sadness with his departure, and all my wishes are for the war to stop and for us to be able to go to his grave and have mercy on his pure soul so that we can give him a part of Jamila.” We”.
His colleagues at the University of Khartoum competed in his obituary on social media and expressed grief over his death. His stay at the university enabled him to form a wide network of social relations with different generations and various disciplines.
Sudanese journalist Muhammad Al-Jili says, “I have a friendly and loving relationship with the late Khaled Al-Taqee’, like many others. The mother, he is a person who loves goodness and beauty, a Sufi man, and has remarkable political stances.
He adds to Sky News Arabia, “A symbolic man who is loved by everyone, and behind his departure is a great and irreparable loss. His fellow students will miss him, and even the university and its forums will suffer great grief, even though his body is buried in its soil.”
Abdullah Tower, one of the students who were stuck with the deceased, told Sky News Arabia about the difficult moments they lived for four days inside the University of Khartoum buildings, which border the Sudanese army command by about 200 meters from the western side, after their friend died and they ran out of food.
Tower said, “The deceased was hit by a bullet while we were trying to go out to our homes when the two warring parties declared a truce on Sunday evening, after which we did not find a way to take his body to the cemetery, so we buried him inside the university campus after his family and the director of the University of Khartoum agreed to that.”
And he confirmed that all those stranded at the University of Khartoum left their homes on Monday evening, after a truce announced by the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces for a period of 24 hours in response to international appeals for humanitarian purposes.
