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Thursday, January 20, 2011

South Sudan's majority votes for independence!

 Through JCRC, our community has conveyed our congratulations to the people of South Sudan, who, through referendum, have voted for independence from Sudan.  //Mark Finkelstein
 
 From: GOANAR CHOL  
 
 Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: South Sudan's majority votes for independence!

Thank you for the message for Congratulating the People of South Sudan.
 
It is very exciting for us and I personally thank God and all the People who support us to be able to see this day.
 
Khartoum Arabs have treated the People of South Sudan in a way indescribable in human language.  I saw teachers murdered as a child in 1967 and many of us began bearing dead People at 11 years old because the Khartoum Government. 
 
I personally give great appreciation for the People and Government of Israel for the support given to us in 1970s and the People of the United States for supporting the Sudanese in many ways.
 
I would like these realtions to continue and I am aware that Khartoum will turn their brutal attention to Darfur, Jubal En Nuba from which My wife Batul come and other marjinalized areas.
 
Please continue to pray
 
Rev. Goanar J. Chol
 
Sudanese Ministry Resource Person.
 
Presbytery of Des Moines
 
Presbyterian Church USA.
 
 
S. Sudan hits majority needed for independence
Bishop Paul blows into a vuvuzela (trumpet) after casting his vote on South Sudanese independence at a polling station in Juba. South Sudan has achieved the majority needed to break away in an independence vote, partial preliminary results collated by AFP show, with many counties still to report.
Bishop Paul blows into a vuvuzela (trumpet) after casting his vote on South Sudanese independence at a polling station in Juba. South Sudan has achieved the majority needed to break away in an independence vote, partial preliminary results collated by AFP show, with many counties still to report.  
 
AFP - South Sudan has achieved the majority needed to break away in an independence vote, partial preliminary results collated by AFP showed on Wednesday, with many counties still to report. 
 
The figures gathered from state and county referendum commission chairmen showed that 2,198,422 votes for independence have already been returned, comfortably exceeding the simple majority of 1.89 million votes needed for secession on the 96 percent turnout of the 3,932,588 registered voters.
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