Christian “Slaves” in Southern Sudan Voting For Independence From Arab North…
Freedom.
GUDELE, Sudan — Villagers in southern Sudan voted on Sunday for what many saw as their freedom from “slavery” in a referendum forecast to bring independence to their neglected region of central Africa.
“We were the slaves of the Arabs… Today we are voting for our freedom,” said Duku John, a square-jawed young southerner in a dusty village, with purple ink on his thumb showing he had cast his ballot.
John and many others did not mince their words, in a region whose residents were subjected to slavery and had to wait 55 years for self-determination, including a total of almost four decades of conflict with Khartoum.
“We, the blacks, were the slaves of the Arabs. We now want to build our own country,” said John, standing in front of a long queue outside a polling station in Gudele, near the southern capital of Juba.
“This vote is the final battle. We are hurling the last bomb at the north,” chipped in Charles Sambos, who toiled for 25 years in sugar-cane plantations of northern Sudan before returning to his home region last year.
“This is the end of Arabisation, the end of Islamisation,” he said in the village with its mix of thatched, mud-brick and concrete homes.
Lengthy lines of voters formed at polling stations all over southern Sudan on the first of a seven-day independence referendum which was the main plank of a 2005 peace deal ending a north-south civil war.
Two decades of all-out war pitting the mainly Muslim and Arab north against the mostly Christian and animist south – termed Sudan’s second civil war between the two sides — cost two million lives. . . .
“I’ve spent my whole life in south Sudan. From all the people I know, I can tell you 99 percent are voting for secession… But, of course, the vote is secret and you can’t be sure what will happen,” said Oboy Ofilang Itorong.
Posted by ZIP on Sunday, January 9, 2011, at 7:58 pm | 
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Our commander-in-chief will let them all die when the Arabs decide to invade.
What’s the point?
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If anyone deserves the chance to create their own country it would be the Christians of S. Sudan. NATO has fallen down on the job of helping these people.
It’s so bad living under Muslim rule, that even the Muslims in the South can’t wait to get out:
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2011/01/09/south-sudan-muslims-and-independence/
It could be so they can ruin the South as well, or it may be that they can’t wait to get as far from Islamic rule as possible. It actually sounds like the latter.
myrtle
Absolutely, completely ignored because they’re Christian and their oppressors are Muslim.
When will the black mo-slum ‘raisin heads’ zombies wake up?
Won’t stop the slaver Janji militias. For that to end, these people need arms and ammo.
Southern Sudan is fortunate to have Ethiopia on their eastern border. They should guarantee the independence of Southern Sudan to stymie any possible invasion by the Arabs in the future. The U.S. should too, but under the Obama administration protecting our interests and aiding potential allies isn’t good for “world peace”.
A major loss for the ummah.
South Sudan is living in Dhimmitude. It could come to an American town near you.
I hope and pray for their victory.
They can be thankful they don’t have SEIU and ACORN to help count their votes. However, corruption knows no bounds !