My worst fears are materialising! The above sentence belong to president Bashir in a speech broadcast on the national TV on Sunday (related links)
Bashir believes that after the separation of south Sudan the issues of cultural and ethnical diversity become irrelevant. The official language of the country is going to be Arabic and state religion is, and only, Islam. similar statements were made by second man and hard liner Dr. Nafi.
These kind of statements just show what are the real objectives of the NCP from the beginning, NCP was not aiming for peace and unity of Sudan as a state but rather the implementation of its ideological agendas in the first place and everything else come second to that even if this lead to the fragmentation of the country.
The conflict in Darfur has nothing to do with religion (both sides are Muslims)but has everything to do with marginalization, power sharing, and ethnicity. In addition to that there are many minorities within the north society, for e.g. Christian orthodox and southern who decided to stay in the north post the referendum, plus other tribes within the north who speaks Arabic as a second language.
These recent development paint a very pessimistic future for the north as well as for the newly emerging country in the south. without doubt the Darfur conflict will continue specially with the increasing isolation of president Bashir the decreasing number of countries who would object to the idea of seeing him in person. This will lead him to become more radical and to take more aggressive policies against Darfur groups and against northern opposition parties.
The next two years are going to be vital to the stability of the whole region, but it will depends on how the NCP will run the country after the cessation of the south.
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