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vote in a month from the southern Sudanese on the establishment of an independent state. Voter registration is complete - and is sometimes not recorded.

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: 12/08/2010

JUBA

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The 81-year-old southern Sudanese with curly white beard and a carved walking stick sits on a plastic chair under a tent in a park in southern Sudan capital of Juba. He is in the morning arrived from his home village 30 kilometers away Tokot to sign up for the independence referendum on 9 January 2011 to register.
"I was sick and too weak to early to come here," he gasps, and his hand trembling on the vine. But he smiles satisfied to have it on the last day of voter registration but still managed: "The freedom that is all I want to experience in my life."
decide, after more than 20 years of civil war and a complicated peace process since 2005, the southern Sudanese in exactly one month to see if they want to secede from the rest of Sudan. On Wednesday, the voter registration ended for this referendum. of over five million eligible voters are about three million southern Sudanese in about 2,600 registration stations have had to issue voter cards. 60 percent of registered must now participate in the vote, to make the referendum valid. And the majority must vote for independence.

Most southerners have no identity card, to prove their identity. But that takes care of the registration officer not in the case of Lohima. "He has the typical incised scar on his forehead," he explained. Lohima undoubtedly belong to the ethnic group of the Dinka, South Sudan's largest ethnic group, whose features are traditionally drawn with scarred welts. The Dinka are the mainstay of the autonomous southern Sudan ruling former SPLA guerilla (Sudanese People's Liberation Army). For Beatrice Khamisa of Southern Sudan Referendum Commission of the assault on the voter card is already a success. "The independence is now no more obstacles," she says. The plump woman studied in their air-conditioned office, the latest figures from the nationwide registration stations reported every minute of their campaign workers via satellite telephone. "The registration was a success," she says brightly. The challenges, Khamisa are immense: impassable roads, lack of telephone lines, lack of education. And the budget of the Commission was extremely close. Sudan government in Khartoum had actually part of the overall budget of 372 million dollars are to steer the Referemdum. But "we have received from Khartoum, not a single cent," says Khamisa, responsible for finance, and shakes his head. The North try the south on the road to independence intentionally obstacles in the way, so it seems. Their registrations were still so many shows that "the population is behind the vision to secede from the north.

In Juba, hardly anyone doubts the fact that the majority will vote for independence. The old Lohima, who lost five sons in the war, is certain: "My grandchildren will live in houses made of stone and go to school," says he, and his eyes light up.