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Article: Sudan: Election crisis reveals a country lurching toward war.
- Article from:
- Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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There is growing awareness that national elections scheduled for April 2010 will fail on many counts, with unpredictable consequences for the Khartoum regime's ambitions to retain its stranglehold on Sudanese national wealth and power. In turn, the prospect of an aborted or compromised Southern self-determination referendum (January 2011) looms ever closer, with the potential to trigger unfathomable destruction. Eric Reeves November 9, 2009 -- With growing inevitability, Sudan has begun what the evidence suggests is a final lurch toward renewed North-South war--and the likely spread of intense fighting to other marginalized areas, including Kordofan, southern Blue Nile, ...