South Sudan has spoken. Through an historic vote that international observers have declared free and fair, the much-maligned and long-oppressed people of southern Sudan have voted to secede from Sudan.
May their new flag soon fly outside the headquarters of the United Nations and African Union - and everywhere else for that matter.
For too many years the black African, Christian southern Sudanese were the poor, unrepresented subjects to the notoriously racist regime of the Arabic, Muslim northern part of Sudan. This is not a pro-Christian, anti-Muslim assessment or diatribe. It was the status quo, the reality in Sudan.
It could've been atheist Marxist-Leninists Caucasians oppressing nihilist Buddhist Asians for all I cared - oppression is oppression.In recent years, the region of Darfur became internationally synonymous in recent years with the very worst of refugee camps and the displacement of millions of people. NGOs and famous actors tried to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur, whilst most nations either voiced their opposition to the regime in Khartoum or turned their eyes the other way.
China, in its inimitable and self-serving ethos of 'don't-mix-politics-and-human-rights-with-business-(especially-if-there's-oil-involved)', continued its dealings with the henchmen of Khartoum, further raising the ire of NGOs and Darfur activists. As if China gave a damn.
At least now the people of South Sudan can look forward and build a nation for themselves. This vote went exactly as expected and showed, yet again, how the will of a people will, e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y, win out.
Talk about a HUGE middle finger to oppression.
May the people of Palestine (and Kurdistan and a host of other oppressed peoples around the world) be inspired by what has finally occurred in South Sudan.
Do you get my point?
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