Sudan & Rami Khouri !!!!

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A recent article regarding Sudan referendum by Rami Khouri showed how little knowledge the Arab elite knows about Sudan. I have to be honest and declare that i have not read the whole article.

This is remarkable because it may be the only explicit and credible case of Arab people exercising the opportunity to define their country’s shape and its ideological orientation.

It is after this part when I stopped reading, it was clear to me that the author has no clue about Sudan.

First of all, the people who are going to decide if they want to remain within Sudan or have their own country are not Arab! the majority of them are of African ethnicity which played a big role in the north-south civil war and the war in Darfur now.

I agree with him in regard to the idea that none of the Arab states chosen their boarders, it was made by France and Great Britain. The best example is Africa rather than the Arab world. I do not see other minorities in the Arab world having demands for their own country, may be Kurds in Iraq or Syria, or Bidon in Kuwait but the geopolitical balance at present would not allow for such thing.

I can understand the strive of Arabs for any kind democracy exercise, specially after the failed one in Iraq (Lebanon is not a democracy) but the one in Sudan does not involve Arabs.

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