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DAWNS Digest: Sudan Readies to Expel Hundreds of Thousands of Southerners

By Mark Leon Goldberg

"This proposal is intolerable, and flies in the face of international law,” said Sarnata Reynolds, [Refugee International’s] Statelessness Program Manager. "First, the individuals targeted by this plan have a legitimate claim to Sudanese citizenship – since most have lived in Sudan their entire lives – and there is currently no way for them to apply for South Sudanese citizenship. Second, forcing men, women, and children into deportation camps and shipping them off to a country that many have never seen would be a legal and moral disaster.”

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