"We are not falling into the trap of enforcing Article 7 of the law governing the universities to let the police enter the campus, as some officials suggested on Wednesday. We do not accept this suggested break in. We will continue to fight with our own means," Thursday said the acting President of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) Eleazar Narváez.

The UCV academic vice-president was replying to the "suggestions" both the Interior Minister Pedro Carreño and the Higher Education Minister Luis Acuña made on Wednesday, when pro-government gunmen fired against university students in the UCV campus.

The attack came following a march to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) where students asked the high court to adjourn a referendum on President Hugo Chávez' proposed changes to the Constitution.

Together with administrative vice-president Elizabeth Marval, secretary Cecilia García Arocha, the chair of the professors' association Víctor Márquez and other authorities, Narváez said the UCV board is in permanent session, given the tense situation.

Narváez said "there is an organized plan" to encourage violence and justify police intervention. He stressed that during a phone talk with Interior Minister Pedro Carreño on Wednesday -amidst the violent incidents that left some nine people wounded-, the official suggested the UCV president "he could contact the people related to the gunmen."

He added that the UCV board believes that the presence of police corps may worsen the situation in the university.

Narváez called upon President Hugo Chávez and government officials to stop "encouraging violence."

"Stop this language prompting hatred; stop this language encouraging violence and clashes among groups, of divide between the poor and the rich."