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 Re: ساعة الصفر ازقت ! ما هي ملامح المستقبل ؟ دعوة للنقاش (Re: yousif saeed ali)
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Samuel Mut Gai fought against the north as a member of the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the country's civil war. This week, queuing to register for the referendum to break away from Sudan and become an independent nation, he said the mood of voters was clear.
''I am very happy to be a part of an intellectual solution to this conflict - a peaceful, and orderly vote,'' the 48-year-old veteran said.
''But I don't think there is any doubt about what the result will be. We, all the people of south Sudan, did not fight for the unity of the country. We fought for separation, and I have no doubt at all that will happen.''
Advertisement: Story continues below South Sudanese people began registering on Monday to vote in the January 9 referendum that is widely expected to divide Africa's largest nation in two.
The referendum follows almost five decades of bloody civil war between the Arab-Muslim north and the predominantly Dinka and Nuer tribes of the south.
With about 5 million south Sudanese eligible to cast a ballot, tens of thousands of would-be voters crowded registration centres across the south.
Despite waiting more than eight hours to obtain his voter registration card at a referendum centre in the southern capital of Juba, a 24-year-old political science student, Peter Majok, said a note of celebration had hung in the air all day.
''Today is a very great day for all south Sudanese,'' Mr Majok told the Herald. ''I lost both of my parents in the civil war. I am finishing what they started, and that gives me so much happiness.''
A Juba accountant, Uriya Amale John, 28, said the vote was a step forward for both north and south.
''Sudan as one country was a creation of the British born in 1950s,'' he said. ''But they knew then that it could not work and it has served neither side well in the years since.''
For the referendum to succeed, at least 60 per cent of registered voters have to turn out. A simple majority of more than 50 per cent either in favour or against will be enough to carry the result.
With voters given until December 1 to register, the government of the South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, appealed to southerners not to be complacent. ''A referendum happens only once,'' Mr Kiir said. ''People must come out en masse, otherwise it would mean people fought and died for nothing.''
Loudspeakers fitted on cars that were driven around the southern capital's streets blared appeals to voters against the backdrop of a song with the refrain: ''We are heading towards the promised land.''
But in Khartoum, still the official capital of Sudan, where the referendum is viewed with hostility, registration centres were empty. Most southerners who live there made the trip south to enrol.
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