Fadlo Khoury is afraid of his students: It is forbidden to approach the “American”!

The events of Student Rage Day on Saturday, due to the refusal to dollarize tuition fees, confused the president of the AUC, Fadlo Khoury. He did not wait until Monday for his statement, in which he justified the assault by the Army and the Internal Security Forces on students responding to “acts of violence” and “certain infiltrators who ignited the confrontation on Bliss Street by throwing stones and other projectiles at the security forces “. But the head of the American University did not tell us that the security forces chased the protesters in the streets of Hamra and prevented them from advancing again towards the university, after American University students specifically tried to enter their campus to make their voices heard. his voice from within, and he did not tell us what the army was doing at all entrances to the university and the hospital, and if it was, does the university protect its students? If the president refuted what he called “fabrications that the university played a role in summoning the security forces and directing their operations against the protesters,” then who would have done that? Has Al-Americaniya become a playground for Fadlou Khoury, or has it become a protected area of ​​the political system that is forbidden to touch? Isn’t the decision to lay off hundreds of workers and increase premiums 160 percent by the middle of the school year a form of economic violence?

According to the Vice President of the Student Government, Jad Al-Hani, “Things would not have come to an end if Khoury had allowed students to enter his university. All they wanted at the time was to express their anger at the increase in tuition rates that would destroy their academic future, and their rejection of the corrupt policies at the university that led to this deficit. The protesters were students from different universities and they were not infiltrators ”. As for the talk that only one student was slightly injured and that no other American university student was injured, it is “inaccurate, because the students were exposed to many cases of suffocation due to the amount of tear gas grenades thrown in their faces. , and Cases on the ground were attended ».
Al-Hani refutes Khoury’s narrative about the events on Saturday, as “what the president said about the fact that the university did not summon the security forces is not true, but that coordination was at a high level between the army, internal security forces and university security, whose responsibility currently rests with the retired Republican Guard officer, Fadi Gharib, who Facilitate the movements of the security forces and document the scene with photographs, so that students accountable on the rise. The history of the university is full of this coordination with the security forces, not the last being the expulsion of 800 workers under a strong security guard.
Al-Hani denied what Khoury said about the university going to great lengths to communicate the tuition fee amendments and the need to explain them, as it “did not consult with the student government, the first party to defend the interests and rights of the students”. “Our objective is not violence and sabotage, as the rector said, we are the children of this university and we want its management to be participatory, and to continue to be an open university that welcomes everyone from all classes, and we refuse to turn it into an elite university, “he emphasized. “We will await what will come out of the session of parliament (today) on the dollarization of premiums, to build on the requirements of it and coordinate the next steps with independent student groups and the opposition,” he said.

University security documented the demonstration with photographs to hold the protesters accountable

Leftist Mada Youth Network member Karim Safi El-Din said Saturday’s scene “clearly showed the lie of the American University calling for citizenship and participatory administration through student elections, while everyone knows that the student government is deprived of powers and the student is a client, and today has become an expelled client ”.
Regarding the member of the student and youth sector of the Communist Party, Ali Ismail, he indicated that the American University “did not expect this volume of student pressure that is not suitable for its administration, neither in form nor in terms of political discourse, and when it says that respects freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration, “He wants the protest movement to be to his liking, and that is why the message that the rector of the university wanted to send to the students in the street: Do not approach … This university it is protected from the reserves of the political system ”.

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