Hard Decisions

Here is an interesting article I found in “Alsudani”(arabic) news paper discussing the issue of Southern Sudan separation. It presents the views of some Southern Sudanese living in North Sudan. I used Google Translation tool, it is good to some extend. The article highlights some of the points I made in my previous post.

Southerners in Khartoum show enthusiasm for the idea of separation

News - Local News
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 07:15

A few days before a crucial vote on the law on the referendum on the independence of southern Sudan due in 2011, showing many of the southern Sudanese enthusiasm for the idea of secession of their region, even if this possibility, some worry.
Sabir Azzriha (21 years) expressed his confusion. he is a student in engineering and his father, who belongs to the north and his mother to the South, says he may decide not to belong only to one party in the event of the division of the country. "It seems it's like to put a foot here and a foot there."

Quashie Amum clearly expressed her support for the separation, Said this young woman while she is preparing to attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew Catholic in Khartoum. "in Juba (the capital of the south), I feel in my home, here I feel in a foreign country. We have a culture, language and religion differently." Said Quashie.

Anthony Güney (45 years) said he is fed up as second-class citizens. He stressed that "I will say yes to independence because it is not justice in the Sudan. I have spent more than twenty years in Khartoum to the southern Sudanese, but we are not consider real Sudanese "

Gatoyc Meut Paul (27 years) "I am carrying a diploma, but when looking for work, the first question put to you is are you Christian or a Muslim?, why not enraged?".

Angelo Abraham McCoy “I think that we live apart and in peace is better than living together and we are mired in problems" alluding to the ongoing political tensions. This teacher said he is ready to go to live in the south when declared independence despite "my life is here in the north, We must make sacrifices," but said he harbours no doubts that South Sudan will become a viable state.

In the Pentecostal church in the capital, Lisa Peter (21 years) Said the idea is attractive, but jumping into the unknown is "scary." Lisa, preferring to remain in "unified Sudan," and the same student Grace James (16 years), which says she feel "comfortable living in the north."
In the opinion of the International Crisis Group's support for the independence of the South in 2011, is "almost certainly".

Dinka of the Sudan

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