Sudan: Do Not Distort South Region's Long Struggle for Independence

2 January 2011
opinion

South Sudan's struggle for liberty and independence doesn't start today but prior to Sudan's independence. And that was evident in Juba Round Table Conference in 1947 when South Sudanese were calling for an independent South, but unfortunately they were forced into unity with Arab north by British colonial rule and after independence of Sudan in 1956, Southerners are left under the new domination and colonial rule of the so called Arabs in north.

Thus, South Sudanese people have been fighting for independence more than half century, and have sacrificed more than five million lives for the course of liberty. The reasons for South Sudanese long struggle is known to the entire world except Arab and Islamic countries tend to deform the real causes of South Sudan's struggle, by terming it as western conspiracy to divide Sudan.

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