Pari women dance during a past event in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State. [©Gurtong]
By Peter Lokale Nakimangole
TORIT, 22 November 2010 (Gurtong) – They have also called for peaceful conduct of the exercise right from the registration of voters to the eventual poll.
They castigated the Government of National Unity for delaying the release of funds to facilitate the process.
“South Sudanese have expressed rejection of any effort by enemies of the vote to impede the planned peaceful, free and fair referendum vote, come January 2011”, they said in Torit. “We want to show the world that we can be an example in democratic transformation just like the 2010 April elections in Sudan as a whole”.
Many South Sudanese intellectuals and a number of students both at home and abroad have been in the forefront in advising the Sudanese public on the forthcoming referendum.
In Eastern Equatoria State, majority of them including senior officials in the state government, have on many occasions repeatedly plainly protested and demanded for a peaceful, credible, legitimate and free and fair referendum in the state.
The state government officials have vowed not to allow anybody interfere with the process.