On January 9 Sudan will most likely make the decision to divide into two separate nations: North Sudan (Arab and Muslim) and South Sudan (Mixture of religions and predominantly tribal blacks).
People in Sudan are faced with hard decisions. Human Rights Watch has said that protection of national minorities should be guaranteed. They say that political parties and governing authorities need to reassure the public that they will not expel anyone and will fulfill their duty to protect all minorities within their jurisdiction during and after the referendum.
With Sudan’s long history of genocide and violence? It is not going to happen. It’s a sad fact of life and my wish for all the people of Sudan is that they they don’t believe any guarantees or promises.
Many people displaced from Southern Sudan have lived in northern states for decades and many northerners have lived in the South for just as long. It’s a sad plight that these people face.
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QUEEN’S ADVICE TO THE PEOPLE OF SUDAN
If you are among the estimated 1.5 million southerners living in northern states: MOVE SOUTH NOW! Do whatever it takes to get the hell out of the North before Sunday January 9!
In the absence of a formal agreement, the political parties have played on public fears to further their own political agendas, Human Rights Watch found. Officials in the ruling NCP (National Congress Party–official Arab political party of Sudan) which is openly in favor of Sudan’s continued unity, have made hostile statements threatening to strip southerners of their rights should the South vote to secede. President Bashir has already made public statements that you can expect to see the Sharia law tightened. What more do you have to hear?
The information minister said in September, for example, that southerners would not receive treatment in hospitals – “not even … a needle” – in the event of southern secession. Other party officials subsequently repeated the threats that southerners will lose their property, residence rights, civil service jobs, benefits, and access to social services. On December 7, the deputy head of the party for Khartoum state, Mandour al-Mahdi, said that only southerners who are members of the ruling party will be able to retain their citizenship rights if the South votes to secede.
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SOUTHERNERS LIVING IN NORTH SUDAN LISTEN TO THE WISDOM OF ONE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE:
Southerners’ fears about post-referendum conditions in the North appear to have influenced the decision of many southerners to move south in recent weeks, particularly during the voter registration period.
“The situation is no good in Khartoum,” said one woman, who left after seven years and decided to return to her village in Unity state. “We are beaten in the night and we are taken to prison if we make beer,” she said, referring to searches and arrests by public order courts, which apply discriminatory and vaguely worded morality laws that have a disproportionate impact on women and southerners. “We are better off here.” SOURCE: Human Rights Watch
Unless you want to become a Muslim and follow the strict Sharia Law then get now now!
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AS FOR YOUR NORTHERN ARAB SUDANESE IN SOUTH SUDAN
You are likely to be shunned as well, but I don’t think that you will face the same physical abuse of the Southerners who remain in Northern Sudan–especially the women.
