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People & Power - Sudan: War and independence

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No time to speak of diversity of culture and ethnicity in Sudan

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  LiveJournal Tags: Sudan , South Sudan , NCP , Sharia law , Bashir , SPLM , Khartoum , referendum.   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...

Sudan is not on the list!!!

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Technorati Tags: USA , Khartoum , NCP , National Congress Party , SPLM it has been emerged that the USA is offering the government in Sudan to be taken off the states supporting terrorist list if it facilitate a smooth referendum for south Sudan. The question is what Obama administration is really offering the Sudanese people? to specific what is the offer for the northern? In simple term the USA is offering a life extension for a dictator radical party in north of Sudan in an exchange for, hopefully, a free democratic south Sudan with no major conflicts. The USA could not care less about the situation in the north as long as the NCP distant it self from radical groups and keeps its cooperation with CIA on fighting terrorist groups. This will only hurt the opposition movements and weaken them and make them think that the only way to make the NCP respond to their demand is by drawing the USA attention, and the best way to do this is by starting an armed conflict. so Darfur confl...

Sudan Post referendum part two

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one of the important issue need to be sorted before the independence of the south ( which is just a mater of time) is the fate of southern in the north mainly in Khartoum . during the civil war many southern were forced by the war to move to the north. they live in displaced camps scattered around the capital. the last censes estimate their population to be around 500,000 but many observers regard this figure as underestimation and they estimate their population to reach around 2 to millions at least. Sadly, in the last few days couple of statements came from NCP members including members in government, painted a dark picture for the fate of southern in the north. for example they would become foreigner instantly if the southern voted for independence. Recent roamers from khartoum is that southern in the north are apply for nationality and sudanese passport while in the same time there is instructions in the ministry of home affairs to delay the process if not to prevent it. ...

Bashir’s Trip to Turkey!

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President Bashir of Sudan recently declined, in last minute, from going to Turkey to participate in the meeting of the Islamic Conference Organization. It was not surprise as Bashair need to calculate his travel plans very careful, wrong country and he may never return back to Sudan again. What is strange is that the presidential airplane made it to Turkey but surprisingly Bashir was not on board!!! What does this mean? The official explanation is Bashir is tight to issues related to the upcoming election and the disturbed relation with its power sharing partner. other story is his deputy Ali Osman advice against going to Turkey as the president plain may be kidnapped by Israel air force airplanes or by Greece which according to a rumour is ready to intercept Bashir plane and bring him to ICC . I think the security staff around Bashir advice him not to go in the face of these threats and to send a test Balloon to see if Israel or Greece or anyone else is really going to intercep...