Sudanese Diaspora Can’t Vote!

Posted on June 1, 2008
Filed Under Sudan, Democracy, Sudanese |

Yes, it’s already confirmed and true. Can you believe this garbage? I couldn’t at first and I wanted to double check but it still ended up being true.

I must admit I wasn’t keeping track of the involved details over the last few months. That’s why this comes as a slight shock to me.

We, the Sudanese Diaspora, weren’t included in the recent consensus and hence we can’t vote. With many, many of us outside Sudan and the vast majority being anti-government, al-Bashir and the gang knew they wouldn’t stand a chance (considering the elections are clean and fair in the first place of course).

I don’t know about you but the upcoming elections are already starting to look like a big fat joke, and it’s not even funny.

Lovely.

By the way Sudanese readers, do any of you have information on the size of the Sudanese Diaspora? Someone told me it’s about 13 million but I can’t manage to find anything online to confirm this.

Comments

4 Responses to “Sudanese Diaspora Can’t Vote!”

  1. ras babi babiker on June 2nd, 2008 1:26 am

    I hope
    you remember
    30.06.89
    the system in Sudan seeks Legitimacy
    they stole it man
    with their guns
    and they want us to vote for them
    we refuse them
    before
    they refuse…

    poetry is my gun

  2. amal on June 2nd, 2008 12:21 pm

    I heard that the number was 10 million but I find this so hard to believe. Its really hard to bump into any other Sudanese anywhere. We are such a minority everywhere we go, its almos shocking to find another fellow Sudanese.

  3. Drima on June 2nd, 2008 2:32 pm

    Eh? Not in my experience or the experience of my friends. In fact it seems anywhere I go I find Sudanese.

    I think in the Gulf alone Sudanese could probably number half a million but that would make the 9.5 million supposedly elsewhere rather unbelievable unless you include refugees too in countries neighboring Sudan.

  4. DeTamble on June 5th, 2008 12:45 am

    The Sudanese are everywhere! Or at least in my city they are. Sudanese and Zimbabweans. In fact there is a Sudanese boy sitting opposite from me, we keep ‘accidentally’ making eye contact…it’s getting a little awkward :-D

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