Khartoum — Sudan's Public Prosecution Service has confirmed the discovery of a mass grave in El Elafon district in Khartoum state.
The dozens of bodies are presumed to be of students who were forced into military service just after finishing high school, who fled a training military camp in 1998.
In 1998, some students were reportedly killed while they were trying to escape the training camp in fear of being sent to war in South Sudan.
Since the beginning of 1997, the National Military Conscription Service was made a condition for students to enter Sudanese universities.
Throughout the 1990s up until the comprehensive peace agreement was concluded between Sudan and SPLM, the deposed regime relied on fresh high school graduates for its war in South Sudan.
