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Report Due Soon on Probe of Missing Sudanese Protesters

Mohammed Alamin

   KHARTOUM - The last time Raouda AbdulGadirBakhitsaw her son Fadulwas a
   few days before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

   Fadul, 26,was one of thousands of young people joining
   amonthslongsit-in outside Sudan's army headquarters in Khartoum,
   demanding democracy.

   When Ramadan ended June 3, though, Sudan's security forces violently
   broke up the sit-in,and Fadul disappeared.

   Bakhit, 64, said she didn't know why Fadul wasthe only one to go
   missing among his colleagues, friends and neighbors, because a lot of
   them were going back and forth to the sit-in.

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