George Athor should not be the right leader for the rebels’ coalition in the bush

By Ariik-Dut Atekdit


These days, rumors have filled ears of anyone of us in the Sudan about internal rebellions against the SPLM led leadership in South Sudan. Most of the Southerners who have grown the spirit of patriotism and nationalism in the failed olden Islamic Sudan of no human rights and freedom were only hoping to celebrate for independence of South Sudan in July 9 2011 and then access their true feelings of becoming first class and valued citizens in the African South Sudan as a free nation.

However, a Dinka who is a Christian by faith, General George Athor Deng, an ex- rebel who fought against Khartoum for two decades under the umbrella of SPLM objectives has opted to take arms with claims of last year elections being rigged when he independently contested for gubernatorial post in the largest state of Jonglei. Another Dinka who is a muslim by faith and had lived a militia life for so many years under Khartoum leadership and a recent GoSS President’s Advisor, Mr. Abdel Baghi Ayii has also decided to rebelled against the South to pursue the rights of his fellow Muslim brothers in the region and to claim for them thirty per cent power sharing in the coming cabinet of the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS) by force.

Gatlwak Gai who hails from Unity state with ethnicity of Nuer community, the second largest ethnic group in the South, felt sympathy in Angelina Teny and rebelled against the government to fight for the claimed rigging votes of Angelina Teny, the true wife of GoSS deputy leader. With the election unhappiness we have David Yauyau of Murlei who also rebelled against Jonglei for not allowing him to win in his geographical constituency for the GoSS parliamentarian post.

The list is growing very fast and long and therefore we have a Nuer militiaman, Mr. Bapiny Monituel with a tribal objective rebellion, because he believed that he can not stay in the Dinka dominated SPLA and its Government. That was why he decided to join Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) of Khartoum based Islamic Government during the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) period. Again, the SPLA Divisional deputy commander for Northern Bahr Ghazal, Mr. Peter Gatdet from Nuer community has now joined his colleagues because he is cultured to militia kind of military since long time ago and therefore he can not manage to stay in an organized army in the South.

Though Peter Gatdet had been a field faithful commander to Paulino Matip who had been a prime and powerful militia leader who waged a badly war that had killed most of his tribesmen, the Nuer more than any other ethnic group in the south. Gatdet has decided to leave his leader Mr. Paulino Matip because Matip has a big position in an organized army of SPLA. Matip being a deputy commander in chief and aged with an illness had no option to betray the independence of South Sudan. Another militia commander so far known only by the name Olony comes from Shilluk ethnic group. Shilluk is the only strong existing kingdom in the Sudan situated along the While Nile River. His rebellion is claiming the land of Shilluk Kingdom occupied by other communities rather than Shilluk, especially the neighbouring Dinka.

Romuors have said that rebels wanted to form a coalition under one leadership and General George Athor wants to take over the position just because he is greed of leadership. I don’t think that George Athor is the right leader for the rebels’ coalition in the bush. First of all, the reasons of rebellions of all the rebelled generals have no similarities from commander to commander. And I really wonder whether Mr. George Athor would assume to rule their movement in the bush with solitary possible and united objectives. In the recent days Athor was trying to scare the public and glorify himself by saying that he would unite all the rebels under one rebels’ coalition and named it to be: SOUTHERN SUDAN DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT and that its military wing is: Southern Sudan Army.

My doubt is whether Abdel Baghi Ayii shall join this coalition because the majority in the new movement will be Christians and animists and automatically the rights of few Muslims will be buried by the majority, his thirty percent may not come up or be accepted by the committed Christian Mr. George whose ceasefire agreement before referendum with the SPLA was witnessed, negotiated and blessed by two Bishops Daniel Deng Bull and Rudolf Deng Majak both the bishops of Episcopal Church and Roman catholic respectively.

Athor will not qualify to bring another militia Commander Mr. Olony from Shilluk ethnic group to his leadership because Olony’s war claims Shilluk land which is occupied by Dinka. To make things worse the home County of Athor which is currently called Pigi is claimed by Shilluk saying that even the word Pigi exists only in Shilluk language rather than Dinka. This reason can not let Olony join the leadership, should he join then his aims of rebellion shall have been lost.

Well, may be the rebels against the last year elections results may come under one leadership but how can they make it? Gatlwak who stays in Unity state can not cross to Jonglei state to join his leader George Athor nor will David Yauyau make it possible to come to George in the northern counties of Jonglei. These are leaders of similar grievances but in different and far geographical areas. If Athor captures a town for instance neither Gatlwak nor Yauyau can celebrate with Athor because the distance and the presence of SPLA army in the middle can’t allow them.

Bapiny Monituel can not agree another Dinka to rule him in the bush because he truly rebelled against Dinka leadership so it will be useless to accept the formation of Southern Sudan Democratic Movement under Mr. Dinka George Athor or Mr. Abdel Baghi Ayii for instance.

Even Peter Gatdet will not like to switch from SPLA Dinka led and Dinka dominated army to join another Dinka leadership of Athor. I don’t think that Nuer militia commanders will forgive Athor for killing over 200 innocent civilians in Fangak County which is mostly inhabited by Nuer tribesmen. Therefore, Athor can’t just celebrate the huge presence of militias in the bush. Some may turn against him and all of them can not succeed their Khartoum supported war against the separated country of South Sudan which is full of resources.

So to my fellow southerners who voted overwhelming for separation, the country you voted for will soon celebrate its independence as scheduled by the CPA with all your expectations. You should not be scared by power greed and bribed generals. They will wrestle in the bush for a while and shall soon be back. They want only to benefit from our money which was taken by Khartoum mandukuros (Arabs).

The war that Southerners fought was for liberation, but the current atrocities are just a joking of human life, innocent kids, women and elderly people. Jalaba wants to return us to tribal clashes and square one. However, we as southerners shall remain united forever no more breaking. However, George Athor is not qualified to lead the rebels’ coalition in the bush it will terribly fall out of his hands and our votes for independence shall win.

Shame on Warrap’s Governor Not to Rescue University Students in Malakal!

By Ariik-Dut Atekdit


The heavy and dangerous attack on Malakal town was terrible for students of Upper Nile University. The clashes of Malakal which broke out on 12 March at four o’clock in the morning were fought heavily at students’ hostel in the town. That morning beds were on us. Everybody screened himself under bed. We were troubled, frustrated and infuriated by the appalling attack. Infact everybody was convinced that he was going to die after a short while. The big guns could shake our roofs. Of course nobody could think of escaping that awful attack at that particular instance. Death was around everyone. Far and wide was dangerous and all of us were at risk of losing our precious and God given souls.

The militia entered into the town of fragile security; and masked themselves just around the poor fence of our hostel compound in a huge deep trench of waterway. The first gunshots found students trying to open their books to revise for examinations which were due in the morning. But Malakal was fired everywhere. We swiftly jumped under our beds and remained there for about five solid hours in a gigantic stillness waiting for nothing but death. Thank God SPLA soldiers and policemen rescued us, no students was harmed. They fought the attackers seriously, killing some and dislodged all of them out of the trench. The worst was that we were in the center of the battle between the two warring forces. However, God heard our prayers in silence and took care of our souls. The crossfire that entered our rooms anyhow from all directions made us terrified and we couldn’t count life beyond one second’s time. It was terrible!! Death was expected to come after each breath.

Right after the chase of the attackers, life in Malakal was bad and everybody was calling home for rescue. The university was closed until further notice and the security at apprehensive. Living in Malakal was of no use, so we called Her Excellency Miss Nyandeng Malek Deliec, the Governor of Warrap state to provide us a plane back home. We wanted a quick and urgent possible assistance from our dear governor to move us out of danger in Malakal. But did she respond to us positively? She told us that we called her at wrong time. And we were at kind of confusion. We were not the attackers nor were we accountable for closing down the university. We could not wait for right time to call our Governor Nyandeng, for we just want her to save our lives because our families could not make it. Did we know the right time to call our governor??


There were no planes and roads to take us to Warrap state or Juba the capital of South Sudan. We were almost to drop tears when we heard and saw quick positive responses from the rest of the states of South Sudan when transporting their students to their respective home states. The rest of the governors were so much concerned and sensitive to set their children out of danger.

Our governor refused to address our request. The only shameful thing she did was talking over Miraya FM about students’ situation in Malakal and she could not bring in the how to solve it. This was a simple propaganda none of the governors did though they were sure of helping their students. We were at shock whether our governor was working as a radio reporter for the UNMIS funded radio of Miraya FM or did she resign from the position of Governorship we elected her to. Otherwise there was no reason for her to report when she was not ready to lend a hand over our situation. Governors from the rest of the states of South Sudan sent flights or cash to transport their students for safety while our governor Madam Nyandeng Malek was still reporting for nothing in the studio. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. It is believed that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.


It is a big shame for a governor like Nyandeng Malek not to attend the assistance of fifty university students. If they had died, Nyandeng could be blame equally with the militia who attacked the town. The fifty students are of full-size development in Warrap state if they are taken care. Madam Nyandeng should learn that students are not enemies to her government. I just don’t know what she is doing with the money in the state? Since she seized power we had seen no new building in Kwajok or any other town in the state.

Warrap students who survived at Malakal clashes shall have no peace with the governor at all. We thought that Nyandeng would be the best governor in the South because she is a woman; and women are well-known of caring for people’s lives but the case is the opposite with our governor.

We never know that the governor of our own votes would be the very one to turn down our request for help when we really need it. The simple question is: who does the governor think will transport us if she has rejected our request? Nyandeng acts like she did not participate in war of freedom during the last two decades. That’s why she doesn’t know the important of life and at the same time she never knows that students are the only hope for South Sudan to change its shape to the better one. We know very well that Governor Nyandeng is our leader (Beny) with all the respect due to her. However, she should know that it is not what you are called, but what you are answer to that one proves to be true “Beny”. There will be no need to continue honoring “Beny” who turns out her eyes when we are in danger.

Most of the students are the heroes of the peace she is enjoying now in the state. They fought for the freedom of the entire citizens of South Sudan during the past 21 years and they are now again studying to get a better knowledge to develop the region but Nyandeng doesn’t care them. What a shame! Anyway she can not delete our patriotism in our deep hearts. We shall make sure that leaders of this kind never come up again in the history of leadership in Warrap state. The only bad and common character found with our people in Warrap state is; they forget that they came to power to serve the citizens not themselves.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. We had no option so we called Warrap’s minister of education Mr. Madhel Malek. The reply was nothing but the same. Madhel said he would transfer our request to the Government of South Sudan. But why? The rest of the states have made it without bringing in GoSS. Surprisingly, our minister was inquiring us to give him the phone numbers of the GoSS minister of education or the one of the undersecretary. Mr. Madhel doesn’t have the phone number of his senior employers in Juba! Imagine! Warrap state is under a confused government with the perplexed assembly. How does the Minister think that we the students shall be the one to find for him the phone numbers of his colleagues at GoSS?

We remained in a hazardous and dreadful hostel smelling dead bodies for three days, eating nothing but soaked dry bread in dirty water and eat it for survival. No movements and no shops operating in the town and the puzzled legislative assembly can not come to our assistance. They too have forgotten that we elected them to parliament as our representatives.

But what do they do with state’s money? Whether being a member for executive or legislative organ in Warrap government they never work for the well-being of the entire citizens of the state. They use money for their own desires and self interests. They don’t even build themselves good offices or houses in Kwajok the state headquarters. We were mistaken to ask them for help. And from now on they should know that they are wrong persons mistakenly brought to power by blind citizens. Next time we shall think wisely and bring in he/she who will serve for the better being of our beautiful state and its entire citizens.

On those brownish dusty roads of Kwajok, they drive their luxurious cars in the morning sitting in nothing but under steel containers which they assume as offices. You will never believe me to tell you that the office of my governor is just a container and her ministers are under trees or rekuba (tukuls). Alas! One doesn’t know what to say but the situation of Warrap state is never improved. I didn’t know that an elected governor would act like the previous ones.

Anyway the governor with her members of parliament and the council of ministers have right not to help us because their children are not studying in the South. They have sent their children to east African countries and beyond for better studies, living us here to trace education in hardships and sufferings. The money they steal for their children would make better schools in Warrap state if it were well used. They are training their children abroad to come and take the same positions when their fathers and mothers get retired or resigned.

It is shame on Warrap governor not to rescue fifty university students in badly disturbed situation in Malakal where they have nothing to eat and sleep after the closure of the university because of clashes in the town. We can not re-elect Nyandeng to any position if she doesn’t change her character of denial. In the end, we will remember not the attack of our enemies, but the silence of our government. All we wanted was a transport back to our home state of Warrap.

North Sudan will be A Failed State as Soon as the South Separates

Northerners of Khartoum these days are mostly involved in fabricating wrong ideas to announce to the world that the black South Sudan state will be the next burden on the world if it secedes from the north, saying that many crises shall occur in South Sudan if separation wins the votes. Khartoumers and especially the important figures in the Islamic leadership want to disgrace our choice for separation after they had failed to make unity win the 2011, 9th January votes.



The Arabs of Khartoum have stayed with us for so many years since their arrival to Sudan; we showed them our trust and hospitality. We welcomed them from the deep of our hearts but they refused to understand us. They thought we were coward or stupid to let them settle in our country, the Sudan. They called us slaves; they called us animals or kufaar. They damaged the history of our country and they seriously overlooked us in the human society. But we believe that we are true human beings.



These guys in Khartoum took the first chance to forged the leadership in Sudan and put themselves above everybody. They forged the history and the past unity of the country. They killed us and forced us to remain with them whether we want or not. They thought their cheatings and tricks would continue but CPA has brought everything to an end, yet they want to intimidate our votes for separation telling it to the world that South Sudan will be a failed state. He who is born a fool is never cured. They are more than a fool.



Of course, to tell the truth North Sudan as a new country on the planet earth shall be a complete and a total failed state the world will ever witness. North Sudan will be a country of no vision, composed of wrong leaders which have no good intentions for human lives. The leaders of that country have nothing called patriotic. They are all of self interests. The leaders of North Sudan as a new country don’t really know who they are. They run after being Arabs and Muslims but they have no proper position as leaders in their own leaderships. They are just blown by winds. Their direction is nowhere. And of course they have no any simple explanation of why they want to lead and why do they want to unite the country.

Most of the political parties in the North pretend to be Islamists but of course they carry prophecy of killings and destructions. How do you expect success from a state which believes in destroying human society; an act which is against human rights on the planet we all hail! North Sudan shall be a failed state because up to date Darfur which is part of the North suffers Africans cleansing. So do northerners think that campaigning for genocide in Darfur will make their state successful? A nation which is ruled by centralists and marginalized the rest of the regions is already a failed nation. People of eastern Sudan and in the far North are neglected and the West is under serious daily crises of security of all kinds. Northerners need to care their own country and leave us alone to go. Their parties are visionless but only led by merely sheikhs that can conduct Muslim prayers. They are not national leaders but mosque sheikhs.



North Sudan will be a failed state because the leaders have no any consensus up to now among themselves. That means they are not ready to make a country of their own. Will the next state still be ruled by force as we had undergone so far? The north of these days is in the separation fever. Their worries base on shortage of resources if south Sudan separates. The barren Saharan State has no any substitutes in the place of all the going resources of South Sudan. So we in the south are 100% sure that the north shall face a total deterioration on the continent. Their political situation is controlled by hatred and wars while their economic position shall soon drop to permanent and unsolvable crises. Their relationship with the rest of the world has reduced to zero level. And in fact Khartoum suffers economic sanctions from US administration. Why do northerners fail to read and understand their own situations? A country whose leaders commit international crimes will fail. So I want to tell the readers of Khartoum Monitor that the North, will absolutely be a failed state after the South Sudan secession.

It is Just Time for Evaluation

Many politicians of northern Sudan complain of no freedom to campaign for unity in southern Sudan. They say that they want to come and campaign to make unity attractive. They complain that the citizens are intimidated by the presence of the SPLM led government in the south. I want to tell them that south Sudan is a nation composed of citizens. We shall go to vote for an independent country as citizens not as SPLM members. There are over twenty political parties in the south. Why do northerners confuse the world with their small, narrow and one-sided minds that never tell truth?

They think that to campaign for unity in the south would make our population vote for a united Sudan. However, doubts are there. It seems that the citizens of South Sudan are fed up of making this country one again. Their aim is to set themselves free.



Northern Sudanese have really failed. Shame on them! Their ignorance towards the south has led to the division of the African largest nation. They don’t know how to make Sudan remains one country. Making unity attractive is not to campaign for it. But it is to make equal development. The coming referendum is about choosing one’s future. We can not unite Sudan with an old style. Northerners have been our lecturers for so long. They lectured for disarmament and all that we saw was an army called Mujahedeen. They lectured for peace and human rights and all that we saw was a massive killing in the south. They lectured for freedom but it was slavery. They talked of development but it was the destructions of our poor infrastructures which followed their words. They lectured of equality but we remain as their second citizens in our own black nation. They talked of Sudanese rich cultural diversities but all that we saw was Islamization and Arabization. They call us kufaar (pagans) but we believe in God better than they do because we love and respect all mankind. They act as if God has entrusted them to conduct the promised day of Judgments for southerners. They say that all religions are equal but their religion has marginalized all of us in the country we love. Who among all these politicians of northern Sudan has courage to stand and campaign in front of southerners when they have failed to make unity attractive in all that they do? They promised to implement the Comprehensive peace Agreement but it was the violation that we all saw. The president of the country promised to work hands in hands with Dr. John Garang in Nairobi but all that happened was to kill our dear hero of peace. We thought that they would mourn with us together but they were smiling. The Khartoum Islamic politicians promised the world to make democratic transformation in the country’s government but all that we saw were the harassments and torturing of our freedom fighters Yasir Arman and Pagan Amum in Khartoum in 2009 by the NIF security agents.

This time is for evaluation it is not for campaigning. What do we campaign for? They talk of unity but they are seriously working day and night to divide southerners into parties and tribes. They fear to come and talk to southern citizens because their deeds are so bad and bring us bad memories. Yet they blame it on us. It is up to the north to preach for war or to work for future relationships between the two neighbouring countries. Their words are just signs of losing hope and a cry for our going resources. Anyway, the dog barks and the camel goes. What care we!

Just Don’t Register If You Think Your Vote Will Be Stolen!!

Time has come that the marginalized people of South Sudan shall exercise their right to self-determination without using weapons or other possible arms which they are used to for solving their problems. It has really come that the referendum campaign for the two choices either separation or unity has kicked off on the 7th of November. Ladies and gentlemen, our long war in search for a just peace in Sudan and a complete freedom of the marginalized Sudanese was not an exercise we did in vain. The outcome of our struggle is waiting for us at everyone’s doorpost telling us to register and vote for an excellent choice from the deep of our own inside hearts. It is actually a right of every one of us who is an eligible southerner to register and vote in the Southern Sudan referendum registration/voting centers wherever they are made available. Turning up for registration is very important because all of us want to make a choice that shall either set us free or make us remain in our lowliness which we are known of in the Islamic nation of Sudan.



However, registration for referendum is not like registration for election. In the past April elections every qualified Sudanese was eligible to be registered but now it is only southerners to be registered so don’t attempt to invite your mandukoru friends to come and be registered for the Southern Sudan referendum. If you do so it will be something more than a crime and a violation of the CPA’s last page.



In the first place during the time of registration on November 15, you have to sit down, think and decide and look into it carefully at the same time whether you shall be available in the same place during the time of voting which shall start on January 9, 2011. If you will not be there, then you better not register. Your card for registration will be deactivated in other centers, it shall not work and it has a bad effect on the referendum results. Even in one state/town your registration card becomes invalid as soon as you try to use it in a different voting centre.



The second step that you need to know and observe as an applicant for the registration is whether there will exist an act of fraudulency related to voter registration (e.g. registering ineligible voters). Like in northern Sudan and other parts of the world it is not southerners who are the only black Africans living there. The Government of Khartoum who is so much concerned of its fake unity can convince and mobilize any person to register as a southerner and force him/her to vote for unity. To prevent this fraudulency, you better stop going for registration and the center chairperson shall report that zero southerners turn up for registration. That one dear reader will be your nice plan and it is not a crime and not a violation at the same time. It is an act of security. You are trying to secure you right not to be stolen by the enemies of your freedom. If you are sure that the above doubts shall not occur in your centers then that is not the end. Use your mind again and think from the front, the centre and behind your dear brains to judge out whether you will be intimidated during the time of voting in January 2011. If so I dearly advise you to skip the whole of the referendum exercise completely. It means your vote is stolen. Whether it is for unity or separation somebody is going to use it through the intimidation he/she shall apply over you.



I am warning you on these serious issues because the referendum act says that the voters turn out must not fall below 6o% of the whole of the registered applicants. Though all of us vote for unity or separation and our number which turned out for voting is below the 60% of the registered voters then referendum outcomes will be considered failed. That may required us other means of solving our problem otherwise it shall mark our complete failure, which can not give a single chance to occur. So it is not only a matter of how many people to be registered. But how many will have turned out for voting is another essential issue.



Well, your obvious question will be: “who can do the exercise of your own future?” Your brothers and sisters who are in the south, the complete liberated part in this world will make for you the demanded choice of your heart and freedom. The referendum is a matter of life and death. Nobody can play with this game. Though five people register during this voter registration and they are sure of voting in a free, fair and transparent situation then they are completely enough to make our choice. It is just like, few of our people followed Dr. Garang in the war of freedom and they made it possible for all of us no doubt we can make it for you. Just don’t try to register if you think your vote will be stolen!!!

No Permission for Misseriya to Participate in Abyei Historical Referendum

These days many media stations and newspapers report about Misseriya people trying to find ways outside the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) to participate in the coming Abyei referendum, but doubts are whether the Misseriya shall be given such rights or shall the two partners to the CPA accept to resort to war. Many people fear even to whisper out of what the result of this tension would.

Abyei in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement is defined as the areas of nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms which were annexed to Kordufan in 1905 during the colonial period. The CPA has not also forgotten the Misseriya nomadic communities but given them rights to search for water and green pastures for their cattle and to freely move across the area and that these rights would be constitutionally protected. The Misseriya communities during the time of the CPA would get a share of 2% in the Abyei oil. Well, another important point is that the people of Abyei shall exercise the right to self-determination to decide whether they should remain as part of Kordufan or to return back to Bahr el Ghazal where they originally belong.

I just don’t know why the Misseriya people try to impose an unacceptable proposal when they are outside the Abyei definition. According to the CPA Misseriya nomads are not part of Abyei area. And why does the National Congress Party NCP support the confused Misseriya who don’t have right to vote for the referendum? It is too late for this proposal to be attached to the many pages of the CPA and be implemented. Why did the NCP fail to bring up this proposal of Misseriya right to vote during the Abyei protocol negotiation? This should be early discussed in Naivasha many years ago. Sudan during this era is governed by the formula drawn from the comprehensive peace agreement. Where do the Misseriya and their NCP refer us with their proposal? The history rejects the proposal as well as the peace agreement. At this time we have no chance for renegotiating the CPA but we want to implement the peace to the end. I know that the NCP has gone with a blank mind, because their things are falling apart and they have no hands to support that situation. Their hands only participate in destructions. They have been all these times trying to find ways of destroying the CPA and have failed but have recently decided to make Misseriya Nomads as their correct means of burying the agreement alive. When we talk of the nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms it doesn’t include Misseriya. It is also true that the annexation of the nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms to Kordufan does not include Misseriya because the Misseriya communities were not annexed with Dinka together to Kordufan. The nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms minus Misseriya were the ones annexed to Kordufan. Misseriya are original citizens of Kordufan. My question is; why are the nomadic Misseriya communities so much concerned of what belongs to the people of Abyei? Are these Misseriya nomadic groups, clans in Dinka Ngok tribe? Will they accept to be Dinkas? We don’t have Arab Dinkas they need to know that, anyway. The Misseriya have no problem in Kordufan so they cannot conduct a referendum. They have nowhere to return. If they want to go back to Nigeria where they came from then they can go voluntarily without conducting a referendum. The referendum questions for the people of Abyei are to evaluate and choose whether they can remain in the north or to come back to the south. What will be the referendum question for Misseriya? Do they want to be citizens in southern Sudan? Why? Are they marginalized? Well if they are marginalized by the Khartoum Government like Dinka Ngok citizens then they have to look for their own separate referendum and forward their reasons and facts to why they want to go out of their Kordufan region. It will not be even automatic to say that their referendum shall need them to join their neighbours, the Dinka Ngok. They can decide by themselves of whether to make their own country or to join Darfur. I fear Khartoum will open a fire against them just like Darfur citizens if the attempt that. The National Congress party just wants to use the Misseriya group to violate the implementation of the peace agreement. The NCP thinks that they can just violate this agreement like the previous agreements which were violated in the past without success. Why does NCP fear referenda? No permission for the Misseriya to participate in the Dinka Ngok referendum. You can’t borrow history nor will it be lent to you. Dinka Ngok will not lend the Misseriya members the rights to vote for referendum and Misseriya can not beg Dinka Ngok members of that right. It is impossible because it is history itself. The Mwatamer Al-wantani is to be told that to get Abyei is not a matter of calculating out a budget for its war. Our wars which we fight against Jalaba don’t depend on the financial calculations and the amount of weapons. We pay our own blood to fight for our black soil. Abyei is for Dinka Ngok and Dinka Ngok are for southern Sudan. We can not let it just go because of threats. Abyei referendum must kick off together simultaneously with the south Sudan referendum on the scheduled date. We are implementing CPA but not satisfying Misseriya needs. If NCP is so much fearing because the referenda results will be against its desire then Abyei Council will conduct their own referendum monitored by the international community. In mathematics you can not refuse to apply the correct and true formula and expect your calculations to give you a correct answer. So the NCP can not refuse to conduct the Abyei and South Sudan referendum and expect a peaceful unity. The only way to confirm the unity of this country is to run the two referenda on the scheduled date. We know that problem here is because of oil in the region. I doubt if the NCP hears that oil is discovered in Nimule then they will claim the borderline to be south of oil wells in Nimule it is true and everybody knows that Khartoum is only greedy of oil but this time we must not give them chance to eat up our oil money. They better their own oil survey in their Great Sahara Desert.

For Misseriya they are just wasting their dear energy when they shall not succeed at all. They better build good relationship with Abyei and south Sudan because their cattle are depending on Abyei and South Sudan water and pastures. Will Misseriya take their cattle to northern for grazing if we refuse them to enter our land as per their bad relationship they are aiming to? They need to know that NCP has no toich for their cattle.