Swaziland police fired rubber bullets and teargas to
disperse students protesting about the lack of equipment at their university.
Armed police forced the students from the Limkokwing University
of Creative Technology campus, Mbabane, where they had been boycotting classes
for the past week.
Limkokwing administrators said the university had now
been closed ‘indefinitely’.
Students were protesting about the lack of technical
equipment, including computers, laptops and cameras. The university is a
private university, based in Malaysia, which opened a campus in Swaziland in
May 2011. The Swazi Government pays E16 million (US$2 million) a year for
scholarships to the university.
Local media reported armed police officers used rubber
bullets to disperse the students who were refusing to leave the university
premises after they were ordered to do so by management. Students ran from the
university when police fired teargas and took cover in a nearby shopping complex,
but were forced from there by armed police.
There have been numerous complaints and boycotts by
students over issues including poor accommodation, non-payment of allowances and
non-availability of teachers, since the university first opened.
See also
STUDENTS UNDER FIRE FROM POLICE
KING FELL FOR BOGUS UNIVERSITY
LIMKOKWING UNIVERSITY IS ILLEGAL
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2011/05/limkokwing-university-is-illegal.html
http://swazimedia.blogspot.com/2011/05/limkokwing-university-is-illegal.html
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