Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

"Khartoum Moves to Strip Citizenship of 'Southern' Sudanese"
The ENOUGH Project, February 17, 2012

text with links at:
http://enoughproject.org/blogs/khartoum-moves-strip-citizenship-southern...

by Eric Reeves

Among the many crises growing more desperate by the day in Sudan, one has been largely overlooked: On April 8 the Khartoum regime will strip all "southerners" of their citizenship in the North. No matter that as many as 1 million people will be denied citizenship solely on the basis of their ethnicity; no matter that many were born and have lived all their lives in the North; no matter that these people meet the traditional international criteria for citizenship, (birth, long residence, property ownership, even pension rights). The regime in Khartoum is determined to proceed with what will be nothing less than an ethnic culling of the population in the North.

Eric Reeves
January 24, 2012

[full text, with links, at:
http://www.sudanreeves.org/2012/01/25/sudan-south-sudan-and-the-oil-reve... ]

Overview

There has been much discussion about the intensifying dispute between Khartoum and Juba over how much in transit fees the Republic of South Sudan (RSS) should pay the northern regime in order to transport its oil to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. This has all been brought into the sharpest possible focus with the January 20 decision by the Government of South Sudan to halt shipments to northern Sudan and begin constructing an alternate pipeline route to the Kenyan coast. Formal announcement was made by RSS President Salva Kiir on January 23. This is not, however, one bad decision somehow mirroring Khartoum's "equally bad" decision to begin massive sequestration of South Sudanese oil and oil revenues, as some would have it. Alex de Waal, an advisor for the almost inexplicably ineffective African Union mediating team, writes tendentiously:

"When Sudan was still one country, 50 percent of the revenue from southern oil went to the central treasury, comprising 40 percent of its budget. After July 9, Khartoum received nothing---not even a transit fee." (New York Times, January 24, 2012)