It has become obvious that South Sudan is, by all means, a country that should not exist in the first place.
Back in 2011, South Sudan broke away from Sudan and declared itself as an independent state. Western media verticals, as well as many pro-secession pundits claimed that statehood will usher in a new era of prosperity and growth for South Sudan, and eventually, even Sudan will have to acknowledge the superiority of the South Sudanese state.
Apparently, those dreams are yet to come true, and with things going the way they currently are, prospects do not seem promising for South Sudan.
In fact, I have written about South Sudan multiple times: back in 2013 itself, I termed South Sudan to be a failed state—I am yet to be proven wrong. In 2014, troubled by the loss of life and property in South Sudan, I questioned the logic of secession, and even thought of ways to fix the blunder named South Sudan.
However, all said and done, South Sudan continues to justify itself as a failed state.
Never-Ending Violence
The South Sudanese government and the rebels continue to blame each other for the ongoing destruction. Thousands of people have so far been massacred, and infrastructure is in ruins. Hospitals, churches, and especially masjids—everything is falling prey to the civil war in South Sudan.
According to the United Nations, over 50,000 people have so far been killed in the conflict. Furthermore, over 1.9 million people have been displaced (since December 2013), and nearly 103,000 civilians have sought refuge in UN bases all around the country.
Sure, peace talks are also on the way. Yet, with each failed agreement, the condition worsens and both the parties, be it the government or the rebels, indulge in a new bout of fighting. Humanitarian issues seem to be of secondary importance in South Sudan.
International Response
United Nations peacekeepers are already active in the country, whereas the African Union, too, has launched a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in South Sudan.
International aid did manage to combat the imminent famine in 2014, but due to continued fighting, displaced populace and a possibly dry season, food security still remains a challenge in South Sudan.
As such, diplomatic meetings, negotiations and arms embargo…; everything is being used, but the crisis in South Sudan keeps getting from bad to worse.
The Final Comment
Amidst such hostilities, humanitarian crisis and never-ending warfare, it has become obvious that South Sudan is, by all means, a country that should not exist in the first place.
When South Sudan seceded from Sudan, most of its supporters claimed that Sudan will prove to be the weaker one, and South Sudan, riding on the shoulders of Western imperialism, will develop at an impressive rate. However, none of these claims have materialized.
Today, Sudan, in spite of having issues of its own, is managing to run a tight ship. Agreed, there are many things that Sudan needs to improve, but it is still somehow holding on, and despite poverty, the Sudanese civilians are not regularly consuming bullets and bombs for dinner.
South Sudan, on the other hand, can at best be called a mistake. It is one country that should never have been created—the southern part of Sudan was just incapable of governing itself back in 2011, and even today, the condition has not changed at all.
Foreign intervention, fake propaganda, and militant secessionism of a handful of South Sudanese rebels together led to the balkanization of Africa’s largest country. But the new state of South Sudan has repeatedly failed to get its act together, and having emerged as one of the biggest errors in the history of nation-building, there is nowhere left for South Sudan to go. The only viable and sane option will be to acknowledge the fallacy of secession and re-join Sudan—but neither the international community nor the South Sudanese leaders or rebels are strong-willed enough to swallow that.
As a result, the devastation in South Sudan continues at a rapid pace, with the average civilians paying the ultimate price, simply because they are residing in a country that does not deserve to be called a country.
I am sure that there are many muslims out there that will agree with you, Sufyan, however there are more kuffars that would not, especially the ones who do live in South Sudan. The whole thing about the country is derived from the days when ruled by the Egypt/Ottoman empire, the south was seen as a source of cheap labour, as actual abeds, slaves. The north was the arab elite and it took all the money and food, but gave little in return to the south, the south existed only to serve the north.
In fact, the Arabs are the illegal occupiers of Sudan, the imperial, supremacist muslim arabs, whom conquered and colonised Sudan and alot of North Africa, in such a savage manner that it stripped the indigenous population of their very identity. In short, the arab north has treated the black african south as slaves to the north, and since most of the wealth and water is in the south, the north continues its islamic jihad on the south, under the guise of ethnic conflicts.
The people of the south have fought long and hard to retain their right to their kaffur condition, and reject utterly the arabising attempts of the northern arab muslims who have sought to enforce sharia laws upon them. This war is about retaining their identity and freedom and their resources, but the north wants it all, and is also the prime factors for incitement to the islamic jihad going on in neighbouring countries, such as Kenya, which would provide South Sudan a pipeline for their oil, and thereby eliminate its dependence on the arab elite of Khartoum. This is what the war is all about, and I do not see how it is that this will change for it appears to me that these black africans, the indigenous people of sudan are never going to submit to muslims.
The British were in fact responsible for joining the south with the north under one administration which started the first wars and resurrection of the arab warlord militias, (in emulation of their prophet), and since independence, as with so many other african countries that have muslim populations, have been in a state of turmoil and chaos since then.
It was the muslim marxists whom rejected their subjugation to the western powers and it was the western powers who set the indigenous africans free from muslim dominance. And the wars are at root the continued islamic jihad on africa. It is also the muslims who resisted the separation of the south from the north. However, when muslim colonies set themselves up in other people’s countries, they often make an unlawful claim on the land and wage wars on the innocent civilians. Balkanisation is only a problem when it is the muslims who have to give up the land.
It is more appropriate and correct to declare that the arab muslims are the illegal occupiers in north african countries and that they do not have the right to exist in these regions, but should return to their ancient homeland, arabia. Then there will be peace.
As for north Sudan, it is one of the most corrupt governments in the world. The government officials are the ones who do trade with the various muslim militias and LRA, whom in return wage their unholy jihad on innocent civilians in order to subvert and destabilise neighbouring countries, all with the aim of bringing muslims into the ascendant and to overthrow governments and install islamic states.
“…a credible dialogue can’t even be countenanced as long as there is a continuing — and even
escalating — campaign of atrocities by the Sudanese government’s military and associated militias, from Darfur to the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, including the bombing of villages and mass rape by soldiers.”
-John Prendergast, report co-author and Founding Director of the Enough Project
Right now, today, the arab muslim north sudan government is committing a genocide against the black africans of Sudan, some of them even being muslims themselves. The war essentially is about the fact that the arab muslims marginalise and treat the black africans as slaves and sub-human. Just like Libya is currently waging the same ethnic cleansing progrom against the muslim black africans leading to the desperate boats that are landing on european shores almost daily, filled with refugees. The civil war raging in south sudan is an islamic jihad from the north, under the guise ethnic conflict. The conflicts happening in Kenya is an islamic jihad, because Kenya is willing and able to provide for a pipeline so that the south can become independent of the north, and then the arab muslim north will die from starvation, in the same way that they caused the south sudan people to die from famine by wiping out their crops and livestock for decades now. And the north deserves this.
It is arab muslims and their political islamic ideology of racial supremacy over the blacks that lies at the heart of the murder and mayhem of Sudan. Therefore, it is more appropriate to reject Islamic jihad and therefore the arab muslims, just like we reject them in Palestine as they wage their eternal jihad on the jews. Muslims are doing this everywhere, and we dislike them for their ideology which they seek to impose on the rest of us. Without arabs and islam in sudan, there would be peace.
–their political islamic ideology of racial supremacy over the blacks–
Some penetration into the history by you might be correct but asserting that islamic ideology establishes superiority of race over the blacks has never been close to reality. Islam believes in equality of the believers regardless of their color race and language. Pertaining to Sudan, wisdom demands that both the parts should reconcile their differences and at least opt for a federation.
This seems to be a Arab-Muslim backed propaganda with ulterior purpose best known to themselves.