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Voting begins on Southern Sudan independence - World AP - MiamiHerald.com
No mention of the oppressive Muslims that rule Northern Sudan/Khartoum, though. :unsure:
"The people have been quite peaceful, and apparently very happy," former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, whose Atlanta-based Carter Center is observing the referendum, said in Juba on Sunday.
Carter said he foresaw no problems that would threaten the integrity of the final outcome. The vote is expected to go overwhelmingly in favor of secession.
The ecstatic mood flows from a deeply scarred past. For 50 years, rebels in Sudan's south fought the country's central government in Khartoum the north.
Two million people, primarily southern, are thought to have died in the conflict through violence, famine, and disease.
A 2005 accord brokered by the U.S. ended the war by promising Southern Sudan the referendum on secession following a six-year interim period.
No mention of the oppressive Muslims that rule Northern Sudan/Khartoum, though. :unsure: