Why NCP want to fight SPLM because of oil in the South

BY: Bol Deng Bol, USA

JULY 22/2010, SSN; The president of Sudan, Omar El Bashier, delayed the post-referendum issues as a substitute for war. There is no doubt about this game. The delay of these referendum arrangements are clearly an indication of war in the country. This decision is perilous because the government of South Sudan can't afford the threat of NCP at this particular time.

I urge the international community and the mentors of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to intervene and examine the activities of Omar Hassan El  Bashier's regime in the Country. Though we have limited time to the referendum, the border demarcation, national debt, and oil are the factors that need urgent negotiations, so that the North and the South should know where their own towns and oil are located.

The South Sudan has nothing with the national debt and there is nothing to be discussed about it with the North because the North knows how they acquired these national debt. Why the government of Northern Sudan (NCP) wants to disown the interest of South Sudanese while it has been promised in CPA?

The Northern elites should embark to refrain from threatening the South because of natural resources. The South must be allowed to decide on their right choice without interference.

We South Sudanese knows that the North dreams every single day about oil alone, but this will not help them to take our natural resources in our territories.

The SPLM is not yearning for the war but nothing will prevent them when they experience the threat that comes out from the Arab government. It will be our (South Sudanese) core responsibility to stay away from those who care less about the identity of others. We must request for our right till the last announcement after January 9th, 2011.

The Arab in Sudan must know that the SPLM fought the war because they had been denied the right of their identity, equality, and thorough representation in the Sudan's government, but if the Arab government initiated the war because of oil in the South's territory, then that would be the clear escalation of war.

The citizens of South Sudan have no intentions to create war of resources since most of  the Southerners believe that any resources located in the South will be for the South, while the ones in the North will be for the Northerners. I think that is a fair game.

The human rights and the promoters of CPA should carefully need to monitor the process of referendum next year because this last step involved unsealed problems that might restart the war in the Sudan.

The international communities, African Union, and IGAD need to understand that the South were fighting the North because the Islamic regime in Khartoum had been repressing the South for so long. The Northerners have used the oil for themselves; they used our oil revenues to built their areas while leaving the South empty.

Consequently, if the Arab dominant party continuous intimidating the people of  South Sudan because of oil, then the war is inevitable in this country no matter what the possibilities of the referendum schedule next year.

Since the government of South Sudan (SPLM) and the Khartoum government (NCP) perceived the referendum that was stipulated in CPA in different ways, then the war would erupt because the North based their interest on oil revenues and national debt.

I encouraged the international communities to monitor the activities of Bashier's regime during the referendum because their claim always fall in a vacuum. I think, it will not be fair for both sides to share the national debt while only one side used it to buy their weapons to fight the other side. It's rare for the South to accept the share of weapons that the Arab North used against them during the war. This part of negotiation must be disregarded because this is another part of  war strategy utilized by the Arab North to built their controversy as one of the Post referendum issues.

The national debt argument is another package for war proposed by the Islamic regime in the North to confuse others. Yes, the South will pay the share whenever they fall into that buying tactics during that time, but who made contracts with the North or whoever requested that national debt? Who sign the documents of those debt?

We must be keenly serious with these Arabs otherwise things will stay constant. There will be no development, no transparency, and no peace in the country.

Certainly, the people of South Sudan might or definitely ask who made some contracts about oil debt with this Arab North? The North has been accumulating their debt from Russia, China, and Iraq during the South-North war. The Northern government has been borrowing weapons from the Middle East and Asian countries to destroy the South.

The international community has power to examine the truth without doubt about the national debt the Arab North complaint in this referendum. Why do they claim this debt against the South?

It's clear that the president of Sudan, Omar El Bashier has no interest to solve the border issues, oil revenues, debt, and the others post referendum issues because he has the intention of creating the war after the South Sudanese preferred their independence over the unity.

I think the Northerners forgot that the two parties agreed that oil should be shared on 50-50 rule before the referendum according to CPA. It's obvious that the oil will not be shared after the South chose separation over unity with the North. The Arab North are worried that GOSS will take all its 100% of oil revenue located in the South. The resources in the South will be automatically be for the South Sudanese and the same thing to the North.

Frankly, the issue of oil revenue should not be a major problem if the Arab North knows what they are doing in the Country. They must know that this is a modern time, it's not the time when they took all the oil in the whole country for their own use without Southerners. The South Sudan never received any share of oil ever since, but only in 2005 when the CPA was sign.

Why does National Congress Party (NCP) want to fight for the resources in the South if the they are normal? Why the North Sudanese want to fight the South Sudanese because of oil in the South? This is ridiculous. No South citizens can take this into their highest consideration because the game of our Northern brothers has come into saturated state.

The international community, IGAD, and AU must force the Khartoum government to adapt to the CPA laws otherwise the country will fall back to its original condition.

The problem of borders need critical thinking because this issue must be far from compromise. We South Sudanese do not want to initiate the war of subduing, but we can react to any  sort of things that want to plot the interest of our people next year.

South Sudanese can not afford NCP aggression because of our natural resources.

Bol Deng Bol USA

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