| Summary/Abstract |
When they celebrated independence on July 9, 2011, the people of South Sudan hoped that the fundamental problems that had doomed the united nation of Sudan over the previous 55 years had finally been resolved. At long last, as citizens of their own independent sovereign nation, South Sudanese would no longer be a minority subject to racial and religious discrimination, and robbed of their immense natural resources—water, farmland, and oil—by northern compatriots, who often bore a greater resemblance to colonizers than fellow citizens.
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