Pete
05-12-2011, 03:59
Sudan: Could Nuba mountains be next conflict?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13351773
"South Sudan will become independent in July, following a long civil war. But that does not mean the country left behind is united.
The people of the Nuba mountains, in the north, are on a collision course with President Omar al-Bashir and his party.
The Nuba are a collection of language groups that are sometimes described as more a political or geographical entity than a homogenous ethnic group.
They follow Islam, Christianity, or traditional religions - but crucially, most see themselves as very different from the Arab elites in Khartoum.
"Despite all the talk about my Arabism, my religion, my culture, I am a Nuba, I am black, I am an African," is how the late Nuba war hero Youssif Kawa Makki put it. ..................."
How will Khartoum crush the people in the Nuba mountains?
"............In a well-publicised recent speech, President Bashir said once South Sudan secedes, there would be no place for ethnic or cultural diversity in the north, and Islam would be the sole source of law.
This has got many Nuba worried. ............"
Dang, that pesky Islam thing again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13351773
"South Sudan will become independent in July, following a long civil war. But that does not mean the country left behind is united.
The people of the Nuba mountains, in the north, are on a collision course with President Omar al-Bashir and his party.
The Nuba are a collection of language groups that are sometimes described as more a political or geographical entity than a homogenous ethnic group.
They follow Islam, Christianity, or traditional religions - but crucially, most see themselves as very different from the Arab elites in Khartoum.
"Despite all the talk about my Arabism, my religion, my culture, I am a Nuba, I am black, I am an African," is how the late Nuba war hero Youssif Kawa Makki put it. ..................."
How will Khartoum crush the people in the Nuba mountains?
"............In a well-publicised recent speech, President Bashir said once South Sudan secedes, there would be no place for ethnic or cultural diversity in the north, and Islam would be the sole source of law.
This has got many Nuba worried. ............"
Dang, that pesky Islam thing again.