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Remembering CPA Day: John Garang speech - Eye Radio

”With this peace agreement, the SPLM and the National Congress Party government have brought half a century of war to a dignified end – congratulations.” eyeradio.org/remembering-cp…

”With this peace agreement, there will be no more bombs falling from the sky on innocent children and women. Instead of the cries of children and the wailing of women and the pain of the last 21 years of war, peace will bless us once more with hearing the happy giggling of...

...children and the enchanting ululation of women who are excited in happiness for one reason or another.”

”At the political level, this agreement affirms the right of self-determination for the people of southern Sudan and the right of popular consultation for the people of...

..the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile so that the unity of Sudan becomes based on the free will of the people instead of on wars and the forced and false unity of the last 49 years.”

”This peace agreement will change Sudan forever. Sudan cannot and will never be the same again...

...as this peace agreement will engulf the country in democratic and fundamental transformations, instead of being engulfed in wars as it has always been for the last 184 years – since 1821 when our country was first invaded by outside powers and exposed to the ravages of the...

...slave trade and predatory commerce of all sorts, and since before independence from 1955 in civil wars.”

”This peace agreement coincides with Sudan’s 49th independence celebrations. And I agree with what President Bashir said on 31 December [2004] in Naivasha, when we...

...signed the last two documents of the comprehensive peace agreement – that Sudan’s independence on 1 January 1956 was not completed because of [word indistinct] south. The war we are ending today first broke out in Torit on 18 August 1955. Four months before independence. And..

...so the south, like other marginalized parts of Sudan was really not part of that independence. With this peace agreement, we begin the process of achieving real independence by all Sudanese people and for all the Sudanese people.”

”The signing of this comprehensive peace...

...agreement thus marks the end of what I will correctly call the first republic of the whole Sudan that has lasted 49 years from 1 January 1956 to 31 December 2004, when we signed the last two agreements on a comprehensive cease-fire and implementation modalities. And at a...

...personal note, exactly 42 years to the date when I first left Sudan for the bush on 31 December 1962 to join the first war. I hope I will not go to the bush again.”

”This peace agreement, therefore, signals the beginning of Sudan’s second republic of the new Sudan. From...

...here on Sudan for the first time will be a country voluntarily united in justice, honour and dignity for all its citizens regardless of their race, regardless of their religion, regardless of their gender or else if the country fails to rise to this challenge of moving away...

...from the old Sudan to the new Sudan of free and equal citizens, then the union shall be dissolved amicably and peacefully through the right of self-determination at the end the six years of the interim period.”

”I call on the Sudanese people to join this peace agreement,...

...to join the SPLM and the National Congress Party in the peace process because this peace agreement belongs to them. It does not belong to John Garang or the SPLM leadership, it does not belong to [Vice-President] Ali Uthman Taha or President Al-Bashir or to the National...

...Congress Party. This agreement belongs to all of Sudan, to its neighbours, to Africa, to the Arab world and indeed to the rest of the world. That is why you see this big attendance today because this peace belongs to all of them.”

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