In an environment of wars created by the NRM Military dictatorship in Northern Uganda and southern Sudan for the past 20 years, it is inconceivable that Sudanese Refuges would return back to southern Sudan and participate in the the referendum which will ultimately determine the future of Southern Sudan . Let us face it Sudanese refugees CANNOT return to southern Sudan , if for instance the war between the LRA and Museveni's NRA erupts again! or can they?
This mean that it is In the interest of GOSS to ensure that a a peace agreement is reached between the LRA and Museveni NRA? Otherwise.. NOBODY is going to vote in the so called Referendum in southern Sudan. Which further means the Arabs in Khartoum WILL win!
MK
Uganda: S. Sudan Recalls Refugees for Referendum Census
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The Monitor (Kampala)
November 13, 2006
Posted to the web November 13, 2006
Posted to the web November 13, 2006
Tabu Butagira & Kefa Atibuni
THE government of South Sudan has dispatched a
delegation to persuade thousands of its reluctant refugees in Uganda to return home.
Daily Monitor has learnt that Mr Etien Kouassi Lazare, the UNHCR Head of Sub Office in Kajo Keji, Sudan organised the 14-member team comprising government and NGO officials to update the exiles on the prevailing situation in their native land and inspire them to return.
The team leader, Mr Emilio Igga Alimas, the commissioner for Magwi county in Eastern Equatoria State, told the refugee community in Ikafe settlement camp in Yumbe district on Saturday that they should get home quickly in order to be enumerated in the November 2007 general census so as to participate in the landmark (secession) referendum provided in the January 2004 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
"We are prepared to receive the returnees,"â¬Â Alimas said.
In April this year, the Goss released $24m (about
Shs4.3 billion) to bankroll the arduous resettlement and reintegration exercise of returnees and IDPs, which is partly being executed by the Norwegian Church Aid.
"Generally you people (refugees) are still afraid and think the security situation is bad. Some of you think that when you go home you will be harassed or the property you acquired from Uganda would be looted which is not the case,"â¬Â Alimas said.
UNHCR Country Reprehensive in Uganda Cindy Burns stopped the on-going voluntary repatriation of Sudanese refugees from the country on October 20 after the deadly militia attacks on the Nimule-Juba Road.
"Nothing like this (attacks) will happen and there is also amnesty for all offences committed in the past. There must be forgiveness and reconciliation,"Â Alimas said.
He said mines and caches of other explosives interred in former military barracks or
frontlines have already been removed and SPLA soldiers are adequately deployed to guard everyone in Sudan.
Other high profile guests on the come-and-inform trip include Lafon County commissioner Luka Aribok, his Ikotos County counterpart Pasquale Angasi and Mr Solomon Ocuko, the acting commissioner for Torit County, all in Eastern Equatoria state.
The officials unveiled a package of pleasantries including lucrative job opportunities for the lowly learned and availability of schools, roads and other social infrastructure in Sudan.
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"The refugees must, however, recognise that from war, you can't have everything at once. There are certain things they will have to do to improve their welfare and this is why they should return now,"Â Alimas said.
The Sudanese officials toured refugee settlements in Yumbe and Arua district over the weekend after a two-day visit to Adjumani and Moyo and were scheduled to visit Kiryandongo camp in Masindi district today.
Mr Barry Abdoulaye, the new UNHCR Head of Sub Office in Arua, said it was appropriate for the refugees to consider going back voluntarily because funds for the UN refugee agency to cater for them are dwindling.
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