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Re: عفواً ايها الساده / خوجلى / المهدى / مصطفى فلن تعاد الخدعه من جديد !!!. (Re: luai)
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Dear Sufian Your analysis is great. People easily forget about the issues in contention in the Sudan and jump to the conclusion that Southerners want to dismentle the country. This argument is falsely supported by the the right of self-determination the Naivasha peace has provided. However, the history of the right of self-determination(RSD) is intentionally burried for the purpose of misleading the Sudanese people. The National Islamic Front (NIF), nown known as the National Congress Party (NCP)has succeded in potraying the RSD as an imposition by the South on the country. This is not true historically; but the Arab-Islamic elite is ready to believe anything that come from the Arab Islamic ruling cligue, even if the history is wide opened like a book in front of them to read. Yes, the RSD has been a demand of southerners since 1947 (Juba Conference through 1965 (the Round Table Conference). But southerners have always been ready to accept much less than the RSD. The examples of such acceptance are the Addis Ababa Accord 1972, the Koka Dam Declaration 1986, and the Mirghani-Garang Peace Initiative, 1988. In all these initiiatives, there was no demand for the RSD, because the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) was true to its Menifesto that made the unity of Sudan a cardinal principle of its struggle. The Manifesto clearly stated that the SPLM/A was for a united secular democratic Sudan, based on a new dispensation that recognized CITIZENSHIP as the bases of rights, not religion or ethnicity. Despite, the clarity in the Manifesto there had been voices that called for separation in the leadership of the SPLM/A. These were the voices of Dr. Lam and Dr, Riak Machar. Nevertheless, Garang had been telling them that you could not have separation, without defeating your enemy. There was no way separation could be be given, you would have to take it. However, after the split of 1991 in the ranks of SPLM/A, led by Dr. Lam Akol and Dr. Riak Machar, the same voices that called for sepration, the NIF offered Dr. Lam Akol the RSD in an hotel in Franfurt, Germany in 1992. The official offer of the NIF of the RSD was made to embarassed Dr. John Garang de Mabior and his group in Torit before the Southerners, and as an incitive to Lam and Riak to continue schism in the ranks of the SPLM/A. The NIF never meant the RSD as a political principle to end the war in the Sudan. By that time, the NIF had turned the war into a holy war (jihad)and Sudan was split into the land of Islam and the land of Kufar. Questions among the Southerners began to be asked as to how long Southerners were going to bear the cost of this religious war, and the pressure came home to Garang. As such the Torit meeting of September 1991 discussed the RSD for the first time. Garng told the meeting that RSD is not something that can be decided in isolation of the people of the Southern Sudan. They should be the ultimate arbitrator of the RSD. To be continued
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