KAMAL OBEID, GONU MINISTER OF INFORMATION IS TRYING TO STOP A BURNING FIRE WITH PARAFFIN

It is well known that if a house catches fire, one tries to stop the burning fire with water. That sometimes can help your burning house to halt from the proceeding fire. Water does not support burning that is the truth behind. However, though paraffin is just a true liquid like water, it can’t be substituted in the work that water does. If you pour paraffin on a burning house then your home is totally going to get burnt, because the paraffin will even increase the speed of burning. The statement of the so-called information minister acts like paraffin on fire generating the southern Sudanese separation to reality. The minister was criticizing the lives of southerners living in Khartoum if the coming referendum results favor separation. “They will not enjoy citizenship rights, jobs or benefits, they will not be allowed to buy or sell in Khartoum markets and they will not be treated in hospitals,” Obeid said in statements carried by public radio.” We will not even give them a needle in the hospital," he added. That is the minister’s statements as reported by Sudan tribune website.

Well, from the above statements it is clear that the speaker is a member of Sudan’s National Conflicts Party, the (NCP), no doubt. That is why he is just concerned in making conflicting statements in the country. The question remains; is H.E. Kamal Obeid, the Minister of Information a separatist or unionist? His statement encourages southerners to choose separation as an only option. His statement has violated the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) because the Naivasha agreement says that unity is to be attractive especially to the southerners or they may choose separation. I want to tell my countrymen/women that Minister Kamal’s statement is not attractive to those who will go to vote during the referendum may be it is attractive only to his fellow northerners but unfortunately they will have no rights to vote. In the CPA we have all learnt that the unity of our country should be voluntary. It should not come by force or intimidations like what the minister is trying to impose just on people 90 days ahead of referendum. Mr. Minister to me is a separatist that is why he does not bother to convince southerners with good words to make them vote for unity. He is actually tired of the United Sudan just like me and my other southerners. So I would like to appreciate him for helping us in our campaign on Yes for Separation. Otherwise, H. E. Kamal Obeid has shown us his empty political basket. He is not a politician because his statement has reduced him to racial level. He is just a racist. I just wonder how did he manage to get that big political and a constitutional position in a big country like Sudan. I wonder also why the NCP unionists refused to react against their northern separatist! This shows that NCP or northerners have bad intentions for unity of our country.

Southerners should not get scared by Kamal’s statement. This man has not read the book of Comprehensive peace Agreement, the CPA. May be he was just given that position because he is a warrior among the mujahedeen during the war of jihad (Muslims holy war against alkufaar). The minister was trying to cram the book but could not, that book needs only good understanding and reasoning. The graduate of Khalwa must know that he has poor, little and shallow knowledge to allow him to hold a big national position. He could not understand the CPA which was formulated by a Wiseman Dr. John Garang. Anyway I don’t actually know how to go about with these Islamic Khalwas’ graduates of Khartoum who don’t speak to public with good responsibility that represents everyone in the country. The minister was saying that they will not allow southerners to sell in the markets of Khartoum. Why does the minister say that they will not treat or give needles to southerners in Khartoum as if we don’t buy with our own money? By the way to whom does this Khartoum belong? Let you know Mr. Minister that we are leaving Khartoum not because it is not ours or that we have feared Arabs. We in the south believe that we have hosted you on our land in Sudan for quite a long time if we chase you to go back to where you came from then we have violated your rights of movement and choosing to live any where on earth, that is according to the universal declaration of human rights of 1948, I guess, His Excellency, the minister might have not come across that. And if we were to violate then it is the Arabs of the Sudan to be threatened to go not the indigenous southerners. But we believe that we don’t have a problem with the social northern Sudan, our problem is with the political northern Sudan and this is why we want to split the political administration in the country. So any shallow minded minister in Northern Sudan must understand the situation. It is not a matter of taking your microphone to speak out your wrong ideas to any public media for confusion. It should be known by every body that CPA will not finish as soon as the referendum results are out as suggested by that wrong minister in the wrong position suggesting his wrong statements. I don’t know why the minister refused to read his CPA notes but I am sure that the book of CPA was summarized and translated into Arabic just to let Mr. Minister understand what the agreement says because the minister and his colleagues could not know English anyway that is an obvious fact. As for your information, the exercise of referendum will be held on date 9th of January 2011 and shall continue for seven days. Then the results shall be announced in February. If the results show separation of South Sudan then Sudan will be in the transitional interim period until date 8th of July 2011 and on 9th July the following morning, southern Sudanese shall announce their independent state and the transitional interim period is the same though southerners choose the united Sudan. So Mr. Minister the CPA shall expired long after the referendum. That is a number of months now from the announcement of the voting results. Where here does Mr. Obeid get chances of mistreating southerners in Khartoum when we shall be still together until mid of 2011. Mr. Minister you can not confuse us we are southerners of 2011. If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation. To my fellow southerners who are going to vote for unity, it is your right to make your own choice but your black skin and the fact that you are southerners have betrayed you. The minister of Information in the Government of National Unity (GoNU) and a member of the ruling National Conflicts Party (NCP), Mr. Kamal Obeid has criticized all the southerners irrespective of their political parties or tribes. According to his statements he has given no special consideration to southerners who are now campaigning for unity. The minister has not even given some sympathy to his fellow southern members of NCP. He has underlined all of us as southerners to face any bad act that Khartoum will apply on us. Khartoum is using you guys as tools otherwise all of us fall under one umbrella. Why don’t we unite, come together and vote for a free state of no revenge like the one in Khartoum. It will be bad later on when northerners refuse and chase you out of Khartoum in humiliations.



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CAN ALL AFRICAN TRIBES IN THE SUDAN REALLY BECOME ARABS?

The ruin of the nation begins in the homes of its people. Our grand, grand parents who welcomed Arabs had made a big problem to us. Since the independence of our country, it has been very difficult with the Khartoum successive regimes to define the country as African. With no doubt, Sudan falls in the continent of Africa. The world knows it as well as the location can tell. If Arabs in Khartoum deny this obvious fact then they better go back to where they came from. The Arabs in the Sudan have actually possessed wrong understanding about the Sudanese Africans since time immemorial. They thought that they have deceived us and would continue to deceive us until the next coming of Christ. They have convinced us to stay on our land in the 1st place, and because of our hospitality, we let them stay peacefully. After a short while the poor Arabs who had no land and women to marry climbed up a ladder of cheating since independence, playing wrong games on us as if we are not their uncles. We shall curse them of course! Well, they have tried it out. Sudan nowadays is an Arab country. Whether black Sudanese want it or not Sudan is known in its modern history as Arab and a Muslim country. What shall we do? Why is Sudanese leadership in Khartoum so much engaged in religion and racism? Don’t they know that they are living on the land which does not belong to them? I have never found or heard a government which talks of unity and divides its people to races and religions. Where will the people unite if they are already divided? I have never found a government which takes side with one tribe. Khartoum leadership should learn that the Arabs in the Sudan are just a tribe like any other tribe in the country. How can the whole nation like Sudan which is a composition of many ethnic groups be called only for one tribe? People are joking in Khartoum and they are not serious, otherwise. Is this because Arabs have led the country since independence? Well, let’s say that Sudan remains united. And assume that the next general elections of 2014 show the results that Cde Salva Kiir Mayardit is the President of the Republic of the United Sudan. Remember that Mr. Mayardit is a Christian by faith and his ethnicity is Dinka of South Sudan. Will Sudan be a Christian and Dinka country as per the President’s tribe and religion? Dear reader apply the same to Dr. Lam Akol who is a Shilluk by tribe and a Christian by faith will the Sudan be a Christian and Shilluk country in his reign? And then to Abdel-Wahid Al Nur, who is a Muslim from Fur tribe. Will Sudan be a Muslim and Fur country? Just to mention few. Why do Arabs tribesmen in the Sudan claim the country to be for them alone minus others? What about the rest of the tribes? The Arabs in the Sudan have made the chance of unity very narrow for African Sudanese. The Islamic and Arab government in Khartoum which is governed by the holy Quran claims that for a candidate to qualify to be a President of Sudan then he must be: a man, a Muslim, an Arab, a member of jihad warriors and so on. This is very difficult for African communities. We can be Muslims, because it’s just a matter of changing one’s faith, but how can an African man become an Arab? Who on earth can create us again to be Arabs when our God has created us Africans? These are the impossibilities that Arabs minority in Khartoum tries to impose on us in our own country. So dear readers the problem of our country is not with African communities in the Sudan who are always forced to take arms to claim back their history and rights. The problem is with Arabs of the Sudan. They like our country and they don’t want us the black Africans in the country. How will that happen? They think that they will kill us all and remain with an empty African land of Sudan. No, these guys are playing with God. We shall not finish because we did not come to this world alone. It is God who brought us here.

People in western Darfur region are all Muslims and I have never heard a president coming from that region instead they are being killed. A great population in Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile are Muslims yet Khartoum has never dreamt of bringing a black muslim President from those areas leave alone the few Muslims of Southern Sudan who will die without visiting even the national Palace where the President lives.

So because of the above mentioned problems we in the south have found it difficult to go along with Khartoum but it is much better to make our own state, separated from Islamic Shariah law and without racism, segregation and discrimination and it is really possible. Any country in the world is governed by laws which are documented in a book call constitution but it is different in our country. Sudan is governed by a constitution which composes only verses from the Holy Quran and non from the Holy Bible just forget the traditional African religions. It is the national constitution that could protect our rights alongside with our Muslims and Arabs fellow compatriots not agreements or commissions which are always achieved with a lot of struggles or bloodshed. I am confused why these Arabs of Khartoum still claim their failed unity. Well, if they want unity let the north leave us to go first and then they should conduct their own referendum six years later whether to join the south or not to join. To leave the Shariah law or not to leave. To be Africans or not to be. Yes until that time we are sure to make a wonderful country in Africa, not now because we can not be all Muslims and Arabs at the same time, it is difficult. So we better split the country. No for Unity, Yes for Separation.

Up to here dear readers we meet again in the next piece but remember Abyei referendum commission is not yet out, the date for voters’ registration is not agreed and the NCP claims Messierysa to vote in the Abyei referendum. What is your reaction?

We Have Reasons To Support Yes For Separation.

In the south everybody hopes for an independent State. Some social organizations are already formed to alert southern population about referendum. Local organizations like Youth for Separation have only chosen to be demonstrating every month on date 9th until the referendum day. They declare their position, decision and right to vote for two Sudans . These people are very serious in their declaration for choosing secession and we support them. Indeed they have their own objectives of making a new country. They have reasons and great hopes and spirit to push the exercise of self-determination to a successful end of their own choice and that is all we want. They have declared with braveness and courage that “Southern Sudan is for Southerners.” They need no interruption from outsiders. They don’t want Khartoum to disturb them on their way to freedom. They have challenged the Government in Khartoum that it has failed to make unity attractive; so what next? The south must decide to go that is the only option left. If one observes this period carefully you will find that Southern Sudan is already an independent country waiting for its date to officially announce the day of independence. Because almost every southerner believes the fact that, we can make our own country. If we can manage our government in Juba ; why not our country? Ladies and gentlemen.

Why is Khartoum dragging its feet on the referendum commission? Does Khartoum think that southern Sudan shall agree the referendum day to be pushed ahead? They must know that we are aiming for separation nobody can change our minds. Khartoum must be clever enough to study the situation and do the exercise peacefully on time. Why unity? Why not separation? Since on Sudan TV you still write on it a slogan which says ‘ La Allah Ila Allah” a phrase that represents Muslims belief alone minus the rest. Will Khartoum allow Christians to write on the same Sudan TV a phrase like to say “Halleluiah?” and if they allow that then the traditional African believers in Sudan will surely ask something for them to be written on the same screen. The Dinka may come up with their religious phrase about Dengdit and it will be the same for Shilluk with Nyikang’s phrase and Nuer with their Kuoth and Ngundeng and maybe Bari , Taposa, Murlei and many other tribes or traditional groups will surely arise with no doubts. And if our words are all collected and put there on the same screen there will be no enough place to view the TV presenters and guests of honor. I am sure the screen for Sudan TV shall be very small to contain all the religious slogans. This is why we say let us leave religions in churches, mosques and any other worshiping places. We are aiming for secularism because we in the Sudan are multi-religious believers, so whose religion will be considered the highest. Can we really vote for unity when the country is still tough on Islamic Shari’ a Law leave alone the poor development in the south? Nobody will vote for unity which violates his/her rights. We must unite our ideas first, before everything. I don’t know! But in fact there must be some craziness or wrong understanding about us somewhere. We are who we are. Khartoum should let us go peacefully.

The Muslims in the north of course minimize our rich religions. They must know that these religions whether being Ngundeng, Nyikang, Dengdit or Christianity all came to us from God. We did not make them of our own. They are valuable and deserve respect. We also want in the Sudan a president who defines us all as Sudanese. We love Sudanism rather than Arabism. We are not Arabs but Sudanese, this is what brings us together and it is the correct definition for all of us. We want a country that will let us enjoy our citizenships equally with the other compatriots. We are not slaves but free men in our own black African motherland country. On our black soil we don’t like to be provoked. How can my president define the Sudan as an Arab country? When the majority of the Sudanese are not Arabs. Is this just because the Arabs minority of the Sudan has ruled the country over many years? We as southerners have refused frankly to be Arabs. We can not copy wrong origin. We are truly Africans believe it or not. It will give us wrong history if we admit this wrong definition and our children shall get lost or confused later. We better make two countries that are free from any group dominations.

Can we really vote for unity if Khartoum still defines us as pagans and drunkards? We can not unite with the president who during his election campaign refused our votes declaring us to the world that we are drunkards and for him as an Islamic and Arab president he doesn’t need votes from us. Which president in the world can do that? If not Sudan . If Arabs of Sudan want to keep our country together they must put in minds that we are all equal irrespective of our origin, religion, race, tribe or color then Sudan would remain a strong and the largest country in Africa. But with the way Sudan is going now, we shall with no doubt dissolve our idea of a new Sudan from Nimule to Alfa and from Geinina to Tokar. Instead we shall say that our new Sudan is from Nimule in the far south to Jebelein in the far north and from Nasir in the Far East to Raga in the far west.

Beshir Should Apologize For Blood Shed in the South Before Referendum.

As the country is heading to referendum, Southern Sudanese would really want the government in Khartoum to apologize for the past blood shed in the south. As the history of Sudan shall still maintain and hold the South and Northern Sudan together. There will be more need for the two sisterly countries to stay together with some relationships between them. The enmity which is now cultivated in people’s hearts may need to be deleted in order to allow peace to settle once again. However, we are sure and willing to make south Sudan the newest country in the world’s history. Though the south shall still need the north for other things that may benefit her it will also be the same for the north. The mutual interests of the two countries need to be dug out and stored there alive on the border lines. The coming referendum and its results for separation is not the final as many northerners may suggest. Splitting the country is another way of solving Sudan’s chronic problems so people can not take things with wrong and blind beliefs hidden from within.

During the two civil wars which occurred in southern Sudan a lot of blood shed was poured during the process. There was a total mobilization by Khartoum to make sure that the black Africans in the south and anywhere in Sudan were to be completely cleansed out of the world’s face. It was anyway somewhat difficult for Khartoum to achieve that attempt but it was actually a plan nobody can deny it. The jihad (Muslim holy war) under the National Islamic Front (NIF) was tough in this action. NIF ladies and gentlemen is the current National Corruption Party (NCP) of the day in Khartoum. They mobilized us from the south and in Darfur to fight against our own brothers, burning our own villages doing wonderful things and destructions against and on our own motherland, the South Sudan. Raping and abduction were normal actions on hourly bases. You would find that children of one mother could kill themselves during the frontlines of the two warring sides and nobody cared. Indeed it was the same mother who gave birth to her children that could weep for the money deceased and the land deceased two sons. It was the army of money-interest against the army of motherland-interest, the SPLA. It was war of Al mejahdeen against alkufaar (pagans), a war of Muslims against Christians. It was war of Arabs against Africans. Let us not forget the past event; it is part of today and tomorrow altogether. The hands which Beshir of the National Corruption party (NCP) uses to greet our President Salva Kiir Mayardit are full of our blood; the blood of all black Africans who died during the struggle since the time of independence including our prophet and hero of peace Dr. John Garang. Beshir was the best killer of our men during his jihad. He was the best mobilizer for religious war; he is also the best corruptist and separatist of today. His action can tell.

This war will never be forgotten; even splitting the country would not subtract any. So remember it until the referendum ballot box and declare your final decision for the self-determination of south Sudan. Khartoum had planted wrong tree in people’s hearts and is now trying to water it by making the referendum difficult. If this tree of hatred grows any bigger then Sudan shall never experience peace again.

What is wrong with it? CPA must expire with referendum! We are at the last page of this book.

Now, we only want one thing from Khartoum. It is not unity dear readers, because we are tired of unity being imposed on us, we can’t bear it again. What we need from Khartoum is not separation because we are not begging it from them at all. It is our right which we shall exercise without any man’s interruption if not we shall erupt and burst forever. We just and only want apology from Khartoum for the blood shed in the region because until now we have known that there are no Arabs in the Sudan so why was the war called, a war between Arabs and Blacks? Why did Khartoum mobilize Arab world countries to be always hunting us with antonov above in the skies? It is not religious war also because there would be no reasons of why Khartoum is currently killing their fellow Muslim brothers in Darfur? So it was just a war of resources which are of our own. It was a war of the land which we now call motherland. It was a war of hypocrites against righteous ones. It was a war of the centre against the marginalized ones. We want apology before Independence Day from Khartoum.

Would South Sudanese Vote for Unity If Garang Was Alive?

There is always some discussion going around these days in our country about the referendum of south Sudan which analysts predict and believe to result into splitting the African largest country, the Sudan. Other people are so much doubtful of why the scheduled date of referendum is going very fast. They just want to decelerate but it is impossible the date is already set and being monitored. Some people suggest that the date of referendum should just be extended to some times ahead making excuses of lack of referendum technical equipment. That is lie. Khartoum during war times was able to look for war equipment very actively but now is sleeping over referendum commission. Why? What is the problem? Northerners must know that there is no chance of saying that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is neither a Bible nor Quran. That is an old trick. Indeed many people of all kinds whether being politicians, ordinary citizens, women, or men, young or old, from any part of Sudan can not spend a day long without saying a word about the coming referendum. Of course people are worried. They are confused and have contracted referendum panic because they hear about separation of the Sudan. They really could not believe their ears when they are told that south Sudan will with no doubt choose separation as an option. But what to do? It is true whether you hide it or speak it out today; the day of separation waits for all of us ladies and gentlemen, even those who believe in unity, they will one day join us when they hear drum-beats of south Sudan Independence Day. One thing that needs to be put in minds is that the day for referendum is not inevitable nor is it to be pushed ahead, referendum is an exercise that Sudan can not skip or else it will be a crime that Khartoum will not forget if it should be tempted. And if they skip the exercise of southern Sudanese self-determination then the CPA shall have no difference with the Addis Ababa Agreement which was negotiated in three weeks and violated as soon as people moved out of the negotiation hall in Addis Ababa before reaching (Agreements Violation Centre in Khartoum). Southerners under the current leadership are far beyond immunization of such simple tricks, I beg, you just must agree with me in this point.

Now that people of south Sudan shall continue their struggle to avoid any further cheating Sudan must run the referendum on its scheduled time with no plus, nor minus. Date 9th January is final.



The question now is: would Southerners vote for unity if Garang was alive? To me the answer is no because Garang’s unity has no problem with southern Sudanese’s referendum or separation altogether. Garang believed in his ideology of new Sudan put in mind. And for new Sudan’s possibility was northerners to make unity attractive you must also remember. It is also true that New Sudan was not to be forced on Southerners to vote for it and to say it’s a vision. Any wrong southern politician or a northerner who wants to betray us on our right of voting for an independent south Sudan can not connect this with the living vision of New Sudan which Khartoum has refused and distorted for many years since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). What do people want to tell? As if Garang was not there when they negotiated on the right of self-determination for the people of Southern Sudan! In all his speech the Late Dr. Garang did not make mistake to impose New Sudan on the marginalized groups, never at all. People can not speak lies after somebody’s death. Truthfully my culture can not allow it. Garang’s unity can not just be mistaken by unwise politicians or northerners who have only oil interests to unite the country by force. Garang would agree with any result of the referendum voting, whether being separation or unity. It is southern Sudanese’s will. He was sharp to tell southern separatists that his only one vote for unity would make nothing during the votes counting day. It would only be counted one and for all.

On May 2005 in Rumbek Dr. Garang was quoted saying this: “I and those who joined me in the bush and fought for more than twenty years have brought to you CPA in a golden plate. Our mission is accomplished. It is now your turn, especially those who did not have a chance to experience bush life. When time comes to vote at referendum, it is your golden choice to determine your fate. Would you like to be second class citizens in your own country? It is absolutely your choice”.

Analyze this. We need nobody to lie to us these days friends. Here dear reader, what was the above statement meaning to you as a southerner? We need to be brave to tell the wrong politicians and northerners and those who think that our vision is lost because of Garang’s absence among us, that we are still on the track, even Garang knows it in heaven. In my case, I shall vote for what I want whether it is unity or separation. It is nobody’s business. However I believe that separation is better than unity and I love it and that is me. May be you have your own choice. But remind you, we are left with about one hundred days to referendum and you must have a choice now or tomorrow. Nobody will campaign it for you it is your own and absolute decision which you must not blame on anyone later. Be careful or you may be cheated again!!!

Unity of Sudan: With Bullets or Ballots?

Dear readers, it is very difficult to live in this country and understand any term used at a certain period of time. The fact that I am a witness of war has made me not quite sure of the difference between the two terms being used in my country, the bullets and the ballots. A politician of my town in South Sudan spoke to us during our prayers for a peaceful referendum and said to the crowd that the unity of Sudan is to be confirmed by southerners in ballot boxes in a peaceful, fair, free and transparent referendum. In the following morning I read in a newspaper that Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) which is the pro- NCP and pro- unity army are unconstitutionally edging towards the North-South border. Most of the southerners who were besides me while reading the paper talked out with fear of another war, if that can not be seen with two eyes. However, my question was why war? One young man told me that the Arabs Government in Khartoum would not like southerners vote peacefully because they know that the south would go. For me, I am confused, whether we need bullets or ballots to confirm the unity of our country. We better rule out what is important before any process. I think we have tried all kind of wars in this nation. To me I think to confirm unity of Sudan by ballots is much better than confirming it by bullets.

The shallow minded Arabs in the dusty Islamic city of Khartoum need to know that we, southerners have shown them in our last two decades of struggle how much we can fight. They need to know that the six years period of CPA was for them to make unity attractive but not for building up army along the north-south border. The failed extreme Islamists must learn that they can not at this time take us back again to slavery. It is just difficult like trying to see your own back without a mirror. To unite this country again is unfortunate and everybody must be convinced with this fact. I want to tell the unionists that they have completely and terribly failed in applying wrong tactics to achieve their bad intentions. Shouting over media microphones for unity can not and will never attract Southerners to vote for a fake unity. It is just the same to say that bringing SAF or the Mejahdeen to border to wait for war is just a fail plan and it has no success and a waste of the national resources.

Our votes are for freedom. We are just walking out of Khartoum for a final freedom. Khartoum with its fake elites can learn that any amount of threats can not make us surrender. Our guests and children of our sisters can not make us suffer under their hands for life. It is enough, more than enough our blood has filled seas and our bones have made hills of heaps. We are going to make our own black country which is truly African. We are tired of being mixed with the artificial Arabs of Khartoum who claim Arabism when the rest of the Arab nations do not truly agree with them because they are not Arabs. I am sure they will be very soon chased out of the Arab league membership because they shall have no oil wealth to bribe the Arab world community to maintain their membership. They need to know that being Muslims doesn’t mean being Arabs. If I am Christian I can not deny my African ethnicity and claim the whites’ (kawaja) one. This is a simple example for that matter. This is how failure starts. How can a man from nowhere claim to rule my nation for ages?

Well, to make this clear, it is to say that we, southerners can not unite this country again. We shall remain in two countries because Arab Muslims in Khartoum want to rule the country with a constitution full of Quran verses when all of us are not Muslims. They annexed our country to Arab world when the majority of us are Africans. They force us to speak their Arabic language when we have our own languages that can let us understand ourselves. They force us to learn Arabic and they refuse to learn ours. We are completely parallels and we can not meet so we can not stay in one country. Whether the unity of this country is to be confirmed by bullets or ballots southern Sudan must go.