Around a couple of years before I left the AUC in 2001, the administration had brought this notorious State Security Police General Ashraf Kamal to be in charge of campus security. During my interrogation under torture in Lazoughli in October 2000, the SS officers were repeatedly bragging the “AUC is ours. Our men run it.”
What went on from the moment this General took control has been nothing but the increasing “militarization” of the university security: more guards, more walkie talkies, an increasing gestapo-like attitude in dealing with student activists, more restrictions on political activism, severe intimidation of activists and staff…  read more »