Walter Menya
4 November 2009
The government of South Sudan has threatened to boycott next year's presidential elections over rigging claims by the North.
The Head of Mission at the GoSS liaison office in Nairobi John Duku also sent a warning to the North that any attempt to interfere with the referendum in 2011 will be tantamount to declaring war on the South.
Mr Duku said the South was unimpressed with the way the North was conducting the voter registration exercise that started November 1 for 30 days.
The latest standoff between the North and South follows the release of names of ten countries by the National Elections Commission of Sudan where Sudanese in Diaspora can register as voters and also participate in the presidential election scheduled for April next year.
The list to all the Sudan missions abroad includes Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, the UK, Belgium (for all Western Europe) and USA.
The South is questioning what it deems deliberate exclusion of the nine states that border Sudan especially Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo where Mr Duku stressed hosts many South Sudanese refugees.
"We were shocked when we saw the list and the question we are asking is why did NEC exclude the five countries. Where are the sub-Saharan African states?" asked Mr Duku.
He called on the North to declare if the elections were only for the majority Arab North or the Southerners were going to take part too.
"If the elections are for the North alone then we have no problem but if the South is going to take part then these countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo) must be included."
He observed that the action by NEC was a ploy by SPLM's northern partner National Congress Party of President Omar Al Bashir to rig the elections by isolating the South.
The threats deal a body blow to the fragile government of unity which has been battling to remain united since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement on January 9, 2005.
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In his piece entitled “ White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys,”
investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasn’t George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
hope. It was the Spanish courts that returned indictments against Rwandan
soldiers for genocide even as the world coddles U.S. proxy Rwanda and its
leader, Paul Kagame.
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BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the UN PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on the RWANDA MASSACRE….OOOPs!!! She said.
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OBAMA DECEPTIONS
#1
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#3
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE…. OOOPs!!! She said.
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WAKE UP !!! STAY UP !!!
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Life Is A Game. Have Fun .
Luke 18:17 - Isaiah 11:6
Boycott or No Boycott; Sudan SHOULD, WOULD, WILL AND MOST be ONE Nation. The time of the divisive ideas and destructions concerning our Nations and the Countinent MUST come to an end. AFricans need NOT to keep encouraging those Destructive Cobras with their divisive ideologies to be exercise and allowing to be flourishing in Africa they way it fitz them. If we let that happens, we "Africans" are not only killing ourselves but destroying the continent !! Sudan isn't and was NEVER a divided states or nation. Those outside detructive and mental incapability individuals need to realize that Africa Nations Sovereinty need to be solely respected. God Bless Africa.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER !!!
1. TIMOR ( East & West )
2. KOREA ( North & South )
3. VIETNAM ( North & South )
4. HISPANIOLA became ( Dominican Republic & Haiti )
I5. INDIA became ( INDIA & PAKASTAN )
6. The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 AND The Brussels Conference of 1889 – 1890
- DIVIDED ALL THE EXISTING TRIBAL BORDERS OF MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES –
* Making them into these ARTIFICIAL CONSTRUCTS THEY CALL COUNTRIES
7. ZIMBABWE Has survived up until now the brunt of all this EUROPEAN & FLUNKIES DIRECTED ACTIVITIES..from Cecil Rhodes to the Present Antagonists.
- Yet Zimbabwe is being subjected to another DIVIDE AND CONQUER scheme.
8. FINALLY HERE’S SOME ENCOURAGING WORDS FOR US WHO ARE WAITING FOR THIS STORM TO PASS :
Jeremiah, chapter 50 : 9
For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon AN ASSEMBLY
OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall
be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
[Daniel 11:14 ]]
And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south(AMERICA / BABYLON ):
ALSO the ROBBERS OF OUR PEOPLE shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; BUT THEY SHALL FALL !
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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]