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COMMITTED: Mr Majur in Kampala on Friday in an interview with muwaga musa.

PHOTO BY BRUNO BIRAKWATE

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The referendum is one of the political demands that the Sudanese People¶s Liberation Movement
made in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). It is emphasised in the last chapter of the
CPA.
It is a technical issue in that it is divided into three; the legal part, the mobilization and the
exercise of registration and voting.

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The northerners think that Sudan starts and ends with them. So the people of southern Sudan will
have a chance to determine what they want to be in January next year.
We are calling upon the international community and the AU who will be watching the exercise
to make sure that there is no manipulation such that if the south decides to break away, we are
able to form our own government and a separate state.

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We have given them all the civic education for the process to be fair. This process is for example
different from capturing towns as a rebel group. People will vote, determine their destiny and
that is how the process can only be fair.
People from the south are ready ± they have drawn the flag themselves; SPLA is a transformed
guerrilla army. They are jolly people waiting for a new state. We need the help of the
international community and the AU.

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We need them to participate by sending very strong election monitoring teams to avoid rigging.
They should also support us with an electronic voting system and this will eliminate

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manipulation.
The international community should also get ready to recognise us as an independent state. Once
the problem of southern Sudan is resolved it will even enhance regional peace and tighten the
noose on the terrorists.

Once we entered the peace agreement and southern Sudan got a transitional independent
government, the question of LRA was resolved and people of northern Uganda can sleep. Now
LRA is in CAR.
We also want all the international journalists to come to witness the process. We also call upon
the international community to help repatriate our refugees in neighboring countries such that
they can exercise their right to vote.

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As earlier said, we have already established our systems and even designed our cherished flag. If
we don¶t get independence, where do you think we shall put our flag?

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You know Khartoum is not only unready for change but they are also not for unity. Unity is not
an alternative for them.
They see a unified Sudan with an Arab orientation. They have already committed crimes against
humanity and we should not be part of this. What¶s the definition of unity? We can never be
Arabs.
We cannot be recreated again to be Arabs so we cannot accept to be part of the National Islamic

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front. We would rather die fighting. Those small Arab minorities do not even represent 20 per
cent of the population of Sudan.

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’  First of all ± the macro-economics. Africans naturally like business.
The Ugandan community, for example, has benefited much in the time southern Sudan has had a
peaceful government.
An independent southern Sudan will fit well within the East African community and all East
Africans will benefit from this.
Fighting terrorism will be made even easier with our intelligence systems able to track down the
remnants of Islamic fundamentalism of Osama Bin Laden and Al Shabaab with no chance of
having any pockets in the our areas.
Southern Sudan has worked very well with regional governments including Uganda and a good
example is how we have dealt with LRA.

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That will not happen. We have the capacity not only to run the government of southern Sudan
but also a unified Sudan.
We have been a rebel army but have helped the region to build peace so you cannot say that once
we are left on our own, there will be chaos. Besides, the chaos that has been in the south has
always been sponsored by the North ± bribing our people and brainwashing them.
If we are independent, it will be peace.
It¶s a claim by Khartoum that we cannot rule ourselves. But the South can even rule the north.
That is why some people run from the north to enjoy peace in the south every weekend and

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return home to face dictatorship on Sunday. The president of the government of southern Sudan
is running his government besides 10 other governments in Juba.
We have our own army, police, banking system and run our own foreign diplomatic service. So
the AU should prepare to welcome a new state of the Southern Sudan. Cessation will give AU
glamour of hope to bring peace even to Darfur.

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