Comments on: Born into debt? http://www.redpepper.org.uk/born-into-debt/ Red Pepper Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: tim f http://www.redpepper.org.uk/born-into-debt/#comment-2726 tim f Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:25:53 +0000 http://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=3091#comment-2726 It’s also important to consider that many Southerners find debt-sharing unconscionable because of the way debt was accumulated – by procuring weapons with which to kill Southerners. Should Southerners pay for their own extermination? Did Southerners benefit from development funded by the loans they are now asked to share the debt interest payments of?

It isn’t just a question of fairness, or just of development, but of sustainable peace. If the bribe for peace (oil-sharing, debt-sharing etc) is too great, Southerners will want to renegotiate it before long, which could lead back to conflict.

Realistically there must be resource-sharing, of course – the detail of the CPA, oil pipelines which stretch to Port Sudan, and the necessity of ensuring the North does not become a failed state all demonstrate its necessity. But bribing the North for peace comes at a cost and is no panacea.

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