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Separation is not yet an independent:-

By: Sabino Tom

Secession of the south from the north is only a beginning of along way walk toward the independent. The heroes of CPA, Dr. JohnGarang & hustaz Ali Osman in their speeches on the day of the signature of peace accord in Kenya, announced that the conclusion of the negotiation and signing of CPA, mark the true beginning of the independent of Sudan. That means, 1956 independent was incomplete because south Sudan and other marginalized areas were not truly part of that independent. Thus this peace agreement that has made clear and true security arrangement, wealth and power sharing is the real independent.

The seeds of independent were planed in the manifestos of liberation since 1955, 1983 down to 2005. And since then till today, many people have not fully understood the meaning of liberation and they were asking questions such as liberation from whom? What do the southerners want?

Liberation from all forms of inequalities, injustices and ill inherited concepts and attitudes of segregation and discrimination were the answers for question one and were enshrined in the manifestos of liberation.

South Sudanese had wanted to see themselves represented at all levels of the government in their country. They had wanted citizenship to be the bases of rights and duties. Southerners were for unity in diversity. They had wanted all forms of freedoms, democracy and the rule of law. Those answers and many others were given for question two, but no attention has been noted.

These connectors were ignored by Sudanese regimes though they were and still are the bases of social contract of any state who want to build up a true nation.

The revolutionary fighters who brought about peace and relative stability that is being enjoyed today, seem to have had forgotten those noble values, and submerge in the same water and drunk from the same cup of bitterness.

With out realization of all the goals and objectives mentioned above, there will be no different between our new state come and the northern Sudan that we want to secede from.

Unless we refrained from what is now happening in the semi independent government of south Sudan and did a different, the separation will have no meaning and the real independent will hardly be attained.

In the coming South Sudan State, justice, equality, freedom, democracy and the rule of law are of paramount important. Because those elements are the pillars upon which peace do stand. If a state has no those fundamental principal principles, then that state is likely to have insecurity, instability and war, which jeopardizes its existent as a viable state.

Leaders of South Sudan particularly SPLM, were quoted saying that Sudan is a failed state and their supporters strongly supported them. The then minister of cabinet affairs secretary general of the SPLM stated that since independent, Sudan failed to maintain security of its territory, it failed to deliver social, economical and political justice to its citizens.

South Sudanese and their brothers in the marginalized areas were the first to realize and rebelled against Khartoum regimes and their policies of Islamism, Arabism, nepotism and tribalization of national institutions of government.

All those policies and others, made many of southern Sudanese to loose confidence in the regimes and their policies and are likely to vote for an independent state in the coming referendum. With great expectation of building a moderate state that would deliver minimum requirements of life. But the most important questions that deserve sincere and honest answers from the fellow citizens of the south and before them, the leadership of the ruling party is:

• Have we really managed to implement the fundamental principles and objectives of the movement in our five years (CPA) experience?
• Have we really fought against injustice, corruption, marginalization and inequality, the values for which we fought to realize?
• Have we closedown illegal detention centers and stop the torturing so that the real meaning of liberation could be understood by our people?
• Have we manage to share the power and distribute the wealth equally as it came in the CPA?
• Have we really established a mechanism for fighting tribalism, nepotism and tribalization of government institutions?
• Have we realized really that we too are falling into the same hole that the regimes failed in to?
• Have we notice that we too started practicing what made us to call our country a failed state?
• Is it not true, that the vision and the objectives of the revolution are endangered by some individuals’ ambitiousness for power and accumulation of wealth?
• Will an independent south Sudan state not be in jeopardy of being a failed state, if these individuals are allow continuing in that manner?

Unless we change our attitudes and implement the nobles objectives enshrined in the manifestos, we will not enjoy the true independent of our nation.

Sabino Tom is a south Sudanese citizen, can be reached via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.