Demands Ceasefire During Sudanese Secondary Certificate Exams

Moatinoon
The Sudanese Teachers Committee has called on the authorities to declare a ceasefire for the duration of the Sudanese certificate exams scheduled for the last week of December. Insistence on exams in the current situation placed education as a weapon of war, used to punish students and their parents, for staying in their states.

The Commission said in a statement yesterday that the continuation of education without adherence to the requirements of inclusiveness and justice is paving the way for the fragmentation of the country and the destruction of the social fabric. It refused to be a means of establishing the consequences of war and a means of destroying the social fabric and deepening the wounds.

Students in Darfur who were graduating from their mandates were subjected to negative discrimination because of their presence in the RSFs control. 30 1,000 students in Southern Darfur would not have access to examination centres, and there were 2 1,000 students in El Geneina who had been denied access in Chad.

Students in Al-Jiziyah State and Khartoum State would be able to sit high school examinations only after moving to the Sudanese Armys control states on a perilous journey, confronting the Alien Faces Act in some states.

The Sudanese Teachers Committee called for education to be an entry point for lowering the voice of guns, expanding peace and peaceful coexistence among all components of our people. It also called for secondary certificate examinations to be an entry point for unity and not an entry point for dividing Sudanese conscience, and for all students to sit the secondary certificate examination.

It called for the designation of examination centres, correction operations centres and the administration of examinations as safe areas, and for ensuring that examination envelopes reached students and assembly centres.