Posted on 12/26/2010 7:38:22 PM PST by Pan_Yan
Two countries will be created when more than 3 million Sudanese vote in a referendum on independence on 9 January. South Sudan will be reborn for the first time in over half a century, an act of secession which should put to rest the ghosts of Africa's longest and bloodiest civil war. North Sudan, however, will not be able to emerge from this process unchanged.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir vowed in his last speech to turn Sudan into a state governed by sharia law if the south chose to secede. Although the north is largely governed by Islamic law already, an interim constitution which recognised the country's ethnic and religious diversity would be overturned. The number of Christians living in the north is hotly disputed, but their ability to live in whichever part of the country they wish and to move freely across the border after a new state in the south is created would be integral to any post-referendum settlement. Al-Bashir's incendiary words were intended to raise the spectre of mass expulsions.
His were not the only noises off. Sudan's army attacked a rebel group in a village in South Darfur, which was also an attempt to draw the southern ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), into the fray. This was preceded by a series of bombing raids on its territory, which the northern army denied any involvement in, even though theirs is the only airforce around.
Day by day, the referendum is becoming a reality and with it the realisation that both sides will have to find a means of living with each other. There will be a number of hurdles. The first is whether al-Bashir's National Congress party (NCP) recognises the result.
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So the north will forgo the oil ...
How does this end up well
Nigeria faces the same danger of being overtaken by Muslims... reaching the tipping point.
Perhaps the Egyptians could invoke the memory of Pharoah Thutmose III and annex northern Sudan...
I can’t wait until we do that...so sick of the Progressive scum that want to enslave us...
I’m afraid we haven’t been introduced.
Who is this? tell us more.
Just wanted to see if anyone recognized him.
‘Fraid I’m not that up on Sudanese history. I’ve been keeping a wary eye on that part of the world lately because of the increased number of terrorists from Africa, as well as Al Shabab’s ties to Al Qaeda.
I’ll look the Major-General up.
I should have said something, sorry. The point being, the Sudan has been having problems for hundreds of years. This Muslim thing is not really new. Back in the 1880 it was the Mahdi of Khartoum killing non Muslims.
The Sudanese muslims beheaded him.
My hero - Chinese Gordon!
(Charlton Heston in reel life)
Fantastic movie.
This Muslim thing is not really new. Back in the 1880 it was the Mahdi of Khartoum killing non Muslims.
You know for our human dignity, for our freedom, for our maturation, it is absolutely critical to keep history in the forefront of our perspective on the world. One can routinely go, like some college sophomore, to an encyclopedia, or ugh! Wikipedia, and look up the history; but that does not intrinsically connect it to the situation, discussion, or issue, at hand. And it doesn't always take an essay to invoke the connections.
Those historical associations the Left, the Progressives, intentionally, and purposefully, obscure. Conversely it is one of the ineffable gifts Free Republic is good for.
Thanks!
I strongly support the freedom of Southern Sudan. Another tipping card; China is giving Bashir intelligence, arms and other support.
7% of all oil used in China comes from Southern Sudan, which will probably be renamed the Nile Republic.
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