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News Article by AFP on February 08, 1999 at 11:13:02:
Bible fair attack leaves seven injured in Sudan, police deployed ·
KHARTOUM, Feb 7 (AFP) - Police fired shots in the air and used
tear gas to break up a fight which erupted after Islamic students
set fire to the venue of a Bible fair at Khartoum university,
witnesses told AFP on Sunday. ·
Seven people were injured in the melee, which occurred Saturday.
Some Moslems joined the Christian students' angry reaction to having
their Bible fair set on fire. ·
The two sides exchanged a hail of bricks and stones, before
police dispersed them. ·
University Vice Chairman Al Zubair Bechir Taha blamed the
Christians for the unrest. ·
These students "insisted on organising a cultural week, with a
Bible exhibition, despite the university's decision to delay the
event to avoid religious friction with other students," Tahal said
in a statement released Sunday, which went on to accuse the
Christians of provocation. ·
Sudan's Islamic-dominated and Arabised north has since 1983 been
at war with the Christian and animist south. The tension between the
two regions dates back more than a century. ·
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