What is the fate of the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in the Sudan along the unsolved Darfur crisis?

How can a citizen who is bombed progressively, intimidated, in other words in the threat of being arrested & tortured, and above all unprotected form all sorts of possible humanitarian threats participate in national elections with all these hell of vulnerability surrounding their souls.
"Justice delayed is justice denied!"

Well, there comes a national election in April 2010 as a requirement stipulated in the CPA. What a lay man will not be able to understand is, shall the Darfurians participate in the upcoming elections in April 2010? If not, shall it be called a national elections or partial election? No peace in Darfur will simply imply that the upcoming elections shall definitely seize to be termed as a national election since the state of affairs can not by any means favor a citizen to participate in an electoral process and thus shall not vote.

Shall the world watch the CPA crumble and fade away due to the political greed of a few greedy political animals in the Sudan?
Shall the election be free and fair? if so How? Do we have perfect monitoring mechanisms to ensure that the upcoming elections be free and fair? What checks shall be imposed on the electoral commission to ensure that it is indeed an independent institution just as it is sounding.
If there shall not be elections, consequently, there shall be no referendum, what shall be the meaning of the CPA then? Wasted efforts and resources.

The signing of this agreement should not confuse anyone that Sudan is in peace. The CPA itself is not peace. It is effectively a ceasefire agreement and a road map for peace which is scheduled for 2011. In other words the agreement can be simply described as a move of conflict from a military to a political sphere.
If the delegates behind the diplomatic pressures that led to the signing of the agreement themselves believe that they have completed a process of bringing peace in either South Sudan or any part of The Sudan through the signing of the agreement, they are lying to themselves. Too many previous agreements were dishonored either through diplomatic excuse or forcefully through direct oppression in Sudan. Now what is the fate of the current one?

Let the world be aware that if the South by any means goes into war again, that means that the witnesses of the CPA singed in 2005 were reluctant to follow up the implementation to the end. With the rate of arms proliferation in this century, any war in The Sudan by the marginalized groups shall be bloodier than the one ended by the CPA or any liberation movement in the continent of Africa. Shall the pain not only be felt by the marginalized peoples of the Sudan but the whole world since the planet earth has become a global village with virtually no borders. The only groups of people who are praying and shall always pray for a fresh war in the Sudan are the weapon sellers; for it is from it that they shall gain because it is their livelihood business.
A number of countries have already been attached to the ongoing arms race going on in the Sudan in all fronts, and this is a clear sign of imminent war incase of any failure to resolve the hanging issues in the CPA and peace talks between the Khartoum government and the Darfur rebels.

It is therefore high time the witnesses of the agreement stepped in to harmonize the state of affairs right now in the Sudan at this most fragile state at which the document has reached and make sure that the bottom-line of the agreement is reached upon expiry. And continue to work diligently with all parties throughout Sudan in pursuit of peace and stability in Darfur, for full implementation of the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and to prepare for what happens after the CPA expires in July 2011.

May the Direct talks between the Government of Sudan and Darfur armed movements are scheduled to begin in Doha 24th January yield a negotiated political settlement to achieve a lasting and just peace in Darfur and together the Sudanese shall move on to decide their destiny be it Unity or secession.

God save the Marginalized peoples of the Sudan.

Geoffrey .L. Duke.