By Padmini Arhant
On January 9, 2011 the largest nation in Africa and the Arab world – Sudan will be split into two separate states upon validation in the Southern Sudanese independence referendum.
Sudan like other parts of Africa has been ravaged by decades of civil war.
The Second Sudanese Civil war resumed in 1983 to 2005 and then continued in western region - Darfur still engaged in skirmishes on the ground.
The current President Omar al-Bashir then seizing power in 1989 bloodless military coup set up a totalitarian government leading the nation towards genocide.
The civil wars resulted in the worst humanitarian crisis with -
2 million casualties and more than 4 million displaced population including an estimated 200,000 prisoners of wars and civilians taken into slavery not barring child soldiers by the pro-government Arab militias, the Sudanese army as well as the rebel factions involved in the north-south economic, ethnic, religious and political confrontation.
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