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2011-04-19 Africa Subsaharan

Riots break out in north as Jonathan wins by landslide

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Posted by Steve White 2011-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Almost as if the south could cast the north loose and go on its own...

We did it. why not them?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-04-19 09:17|| 2011-04-19 09:17|| Front Page Top

#2 You can look up the historical record of the last time it was tried at wikipedia by searching for the entry on the biafran war.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-19 10:06|| 2011-04-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Normal reaction for the ROP. Riot, Loot, Rape, Kill.

Anyone really expect anything different?

Posted by tipover 2011-04-19 11:19|| 2011-04-19 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Think the French interfere on behalf of Muzzies like they did in Ivory Coast?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-19 11:56|| 2011-04-19 11:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Think the French interfere on behalf of Muzzies like they did in Ivory Coast?

Or like virtually everyone did in the Biafran War?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-19 12:01|| 2011-04-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Wikipedia:

In 1960 Nigeria became independent of the United Kingdom.[5] As with many other new African states, the borders of the country did not reflect earlier ethnic boundaries. Thus the northern desert region of the country contained semi-autonomous feudal Muslim states, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist.

Ethnic boundaries is wrong, and hinges on the idea that since people of a given racial group all look pretty similar, stacking them together in a single country is the most natural thing in the world. Tell it to Europe, home of the Hundred Years War, WWI and WWII. Imagine if we had liberated the Japanese empire in the Far East at the end of WWII and reconstituted its entire territory as a single country. "Civil war" would have broken out almost immediately. The European powers weren't doing anything worse than other countries before them, in getting the heck out of dodge before all hell broke loose in their former empires, but their empires were all on the scale of Alexander and Genghis. I think the reluctance to acknowledge the creation of new nations is partly the result of the 1 nation 1 vote rule at the UN. Existing nations don't really want their vote diluted. But the long term solution to strife in much of the developing world is partition and the creation of new countries that reflect the national divisions of antiquity that never went away despite the European administration of large foreign territories as single entities.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-04-19 16:13|| 2011-04-19 16:13|| Front Page Top

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