جالون بنزين و حقنة

Quote: Quote: "The referenda must take place on time, for the people of South Sudan and Abyei to exercise their right to self-determination. This is the bottom line and a hard won right whose ultimate price is more than 4 million lives lost during the long two civil wars since independence in 1956." SEPT. 24/2010, President Salva Kiir at UN Special Meeting in New York on Sudan. After the international exposure of our political predicament at the recent UN General Assembly by none other than US President Obama, there is now an overridingly serious and palpable realism of the ‘inevitability’ of South Sudan independence. Finally, the world community is undoubtedly awakening to the fact that south Sudanese are determinedly and overwhelmingly decided to secede - whether the expected Referendum on ‘our’ Self-determination takes place as scheduled on January 9, next year or not. As southerners, it was totally a moral boast as well as a political victory to witness the US President, the UN Secretary General and other world leaders exerting great pressure on the Arab Jellaba North to conduct the Referenda votes in a timely and transparent manner. Having publicly, albeit unbelievably, acceded and consented to the international community their word to carry out the Referenda as prescribed by the CPA, the Jellaba North regime of President Bashir has little room now to wiggle its way out of their promise without some serious repercussions. It was completely gratifying for us southerners and especially we the separatists majority, to know that even these powerful world leaders have reached the same conclusion like us, that ‘unity is no longer attractive or feasible' in the Sudan. As President Obama eloquently expounded, we, the oppressed southerners who have unavoidably and relentlessly ‘endured too much war’ now want to move towards lasting peace by the achievement our long-denied and deferred goal of separate statehood. Furthermore, the international community has evidently realized also that it is the Arab Jellaba North of Bashir which is criminally obfuscating the full and smooth implementation of the CPA in its entirety but more specifically the final Referenda vote exercises for the southerners and the Abyei citizens. Now, while the Americans are seriously dangling the carrot and the ‘big’ stick in the face of the badly cornered Islamist National Congress Party in the North, which stands to loose much by not abiding by international rules and norms, the Kiir leadership in Juba has a lot of work to do. First, it’s absolutely demoralizing for us separatists that even at this eleventh hour of our destiny, the ruling SPLM regime of Kiir in Juba, under frivolous excuses, is still hopelessly dithering and cowardly dodging to come out boldly and openly in support of secession and independence of South Sudan. However, even though Kiir himself has also publicly accepted at the UN Meeting that independence of South Sudan is now ‘inevitable,’ it’s time to end SPLM fixation on achieving a just and united Sudan and forgo the improbability of ever creating a ‘New Sudan’ with the Arab North. In retrospect, it’s now true that the CPA, in actuality, had legally relegated southerners in perpetuity to ‘Second-class citizens’ by the adamant refusal of the jellaba Arab North to abolish Sharia and to secularize Sudan, instead they offered southerners the option of ‘self-determination.’ Secondly, with the fullest realization that the Arab North is determined to malevolently impede the Referenda in the South and Abyei, the Kiir regime must now tell the world community now rather than later, the option of Unilateral Declaration of Independence, come January 9, 2011. This is very important because of these obvious indications: 1)- the referenda might be postponed or not held at all; 2)- even if the South referendum is held, the Arab North might deliberately sabotage the smooth conduct; and 3)- the Arab North might reject the exercise if the 60% benchmark is not achieved. More significantly, the Abyei Referendum might never be completely held, and this poses a new and real political and strategic dimension to the South. Do we just abandon Abyei and surrender to Arab North plot by only proceeding with the referendum in the south? Alternatively, how do southerners put some legitimacy on Abyei's people's right to become part of South Sudan? As President Kiir clearly explained at the UN, Abyei Referendum is equally crucial as that of the South and that unless urgency is directed to resolution of the Abyei problem now, Kiir warned, ‘Abyei may become the potential trigger for a renewed conflict between the south and the Arab North.’ Thirdly, whilst the South Sudan has been eagerly generous to discuss post-Referendum issues with the Arab North now, including our gratuitous offer to share our oil revenues, the Arab North has been belligerently intransigent as if they won’t let the South go. Reports from the North-South border and especially, along the oilfields of the south, point to massive and unequal military reinforcements for a likely and predictable renewal of aggression by the Arab North to completely and permanently seize our oilfields and alter the boundary. Fourthly, while we southerners uneasily anticipate every imaginable negation and negativity from the jellaba Arab North, we have to solidly consolidate the home front in preparation for the unpredictable future ahead. Kiir’s choices are really limited, he doesn’t need to be bogged down too much on the causations of the current impasse on the CPA implementation any longer. It’s therefore vitally necessary for the Kiir/SPLM regime to unite the southerners, but more crucially, Kiir must speedily bring to a quick resolution the multiplicities of armed mutinies and insurrections by our own southern commanders and soldiers, at whatever political price. Finally, with our bitterly long and cantankerous coexistence with the jellaba Arab North aggressors, there should be no compunction, on Kiir's part, whatsoever, if we're forced to take extreme measures to ensure our own very survival as a people and nation. Kosovo did it, and is now legitimized and an accepted member of the world community of nations. Ultimately and uncompromisingly, UDI for south Sudan, which must necessarily and imperatively incorporate Abyei, is our last legal recourse. Let's not worry now about any international legalities and legalese, or keep abiding by an ‘incomprehensive’ CPA that's on the last gasps of its mortality. Between now until the hour of our destiny on January 9, 2011, President Kiir must prepare the southerners, Abyei compatriots and the Sudanese and the World at large, for the climatic moment of the inevitability of the birth of the South Sudan Nation by way of a UDI, period. SSN Editor Comment...Click Here