[Billet] Ucad, "couloir de la mort" ?
Here we go again. In this country, it seems the state needs a well-packaged tragedy, complete with viral images and high-definition outrage, to finally recognize the urgency of the situation. All day yesterday, alerts flew after shocking videos were released; cries of outrage circulated. Radio silence. Then, when the irreparable had occurred: official consternation, grave expressions, calls for restraint, and a promise of a press conference to justify themselves to the Senegalese people. Always after the fact.
The Coud, true to form, pulls out its miracle solution: close the student residence. Move along, there's nothing left to eat, nothing left to protest, nothing left to live for here. The students are asked to pack their bags, along with their hunger and their anger. Painful? Yes. Surprising? Yes. Sadly. It's the endless rerun of an old national soap opera.
There was a simpler solution. Instead of sending law enforcement into a university environment already under tension, they could have paid the outstanding scholarship payments.
Emphasize dialogue and remember, just for a moment, that students are not responsible for the academic years that overlap like speeding buses without brakes.
But no. Instead, they trotted out the same old broken record: "Opposition members are manipulating the students." A classic. Senghor sang it, Diouf echoed it, Wade remixed it, Macky played it on repeat. Even today, it's the same old song, the same refrain. And unfortunately, the same damage is being done in this "death trap."
And while we recycle the rhetoric, we bury the consequences. One less student, one more press release. The authorities speak, the families grieve, the campus empties. Curtain. Until the next tragedy, which will also serve as a reminder that history always repeats itself when we refuse to learn from it.
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