If Sudan ended up a show of supremacy between US and China over Africa culminating in the separation of a nation into 2, we can expect a similar scenario concerning Sri Lanka in Asia. Many of the conflicts taking place around us today have been choreographed to establish modern colonialism against the very countries that have been fleeced in the past – Sudan’s case is no different and Sri Lanka now needs to be alert. As of 2005, Sudan’s population (concentrated mostly throughout the central belt) stood at 39million with over 40% under 15 years. South Sudan is tropical, under developed & inhabited by mostly Africans. North Sudan is drier but wealthier and linked to Muslim Middle East. Darfur located North-West of Sudan is Sudan’s largest region with a population of about 4-5m. Sudan has over 400 ethnic groups with their own languages and dialects.
Sudan is a former colony of both Egypt and Britain and is the largest state in Africa sharing borders with Chad, Egypt, Congo. Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya and Uganda. There is only 1km that divides Sudan & Chad. Thus, cultures are similar & trade (legal & illegal) including marriages take place making citizenship factor difficult to identify. This echoes similar scenario in Sri Lanka where Tamil Nadu Tamils have obviously been encouraged to cross over to Sri Lanka and have made a large number of illegal immigrants which India obviously refuses to acknowledge.
It is estimated that 2.5m lives have been lost thus far through decades of violence in Sudan. What is important is not that the Government has been funding militia, or that the rebels are being funded and armed by the West but that the gap between the North and South was solidified by the British who had set up an imaginary border disallowing people of the North and South to integrate isolating Muslims of the North while South Sudan was being converted to Christianity. Meanwhile, tribal wars were encouraged by arming farmers. By January 1988 there were said to be over 50,000 automatic weapons in Darfur (1 for every 16 men). Read More
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