Southern Sudanese vote for secesin

At twelve o'clock, the digital timer installed on a roundabout in Juba for several months, the countdown ended. A few hours later, about four o'clock, and there were queues of people waiting for the polls open to vote yes to the birth of a new country: South Sudan. The referendum for secession of the southern right now is being held without major incidents.

Under the heavy African sun, thousands of people waiting for hours for their turn to put his fingerprint on a ballot with two circles, one for yes and one for the no. "I do not know anyone who will vote no," said Ngong Atak, 20. "For the first time voting and I'm very proud of it. Whether you have to stand for hours in the sun.

I do not leave here until they vote." The consultation will continue throughout the week and so many have decided not to go to the polls today. The meeting place of the school authorities was installed beside the grave of John Garang de Mabior, the hero of South Sudan, died in a helicopter crash in 2005.

So there you have conducted this morning Salva Kir Mayardit, president of the region and the first who, at eight o'clock. It is a historic day and awaited the 2005 peace agreements that ended decades of war between the Muslim north and Christian and animist south. The Sudanese have held singing and dancing in the streets where banners have been seen again from the early morning hours.

Some people showed their ink-stained fingers as a sign that they had voted yes. At the tomb of John Garang, a man dressed in a white suit and red shirt, reciting the words of the southern political and military who fought in the war and is considered a father of the nation of South Sudan: "Our mission is complete.

Now it's your turn, especially those who have not experienced life in the jungle. When the time of the referendum will be your golden opportunity to choose your destiny. "Votaréis to be treated as second class citizens in your own country? Depends you "

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