HOW HARD FOR A SCIENTIST TO BE A POLITICIAN!!!
7 min readBy Amer Mayen Dhieu
HOW HARD FOR A SCIENTIST TO BE A POLITICIAN!!!: A RESPONSE TO DR. BIOR KWER; WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HISTORY.
Dear Dr. Bior Kwer,
As articulated by the title of your article and my own understanding, I am aware that you were clearly responding to Butrus Ajak’ insight of the Bor political alliance. However, that won’t prevent me from responding to your response of his article.
Given the claim that you were a young boy during the 1991 Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor’s Massacre, and with me being an infant at that time, the level of brain development may assume that more of the history lies within you than within me.
But I can assure anyone else that the knowledge of what happened in 1991 is widely known as it has been seared into the heart and brain of Elders, Adults, Youth, Infants, Toddlers, Children of 1991 and those born in the post ‘91 era. Therefore, we need to be aware of the faults and rightful comments we put as a reference.
Beside I try hard to incorporate biological science language in my writing for the fear that you might also have difficulties interpretating the point I am going to make here. Likewise, in the case of Deng ee Lueth Mayom however my poor background of biological science has failed me to do so, please pardon my selfishness.
Dear Dr. Bior Kwer,
First you need to be aware that when an individual put his view on a paper or on the Internet citing or pointing fingers on the government like Butrus Ajak did, you need to very calmly understand that they are not pointing fingers on the GOVERNMENT= YOUR EMPLOYEE but the GOVERNMENT=THEIR GOVERNMENT.
You seemed to have taken Butrus Ajak’s message as a direct call for Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor to withdraw their support from the government and put it on RIEK MACHAR.
Same thing has happened to Deng Lueth Mayom call on Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor communities, urging them to accept being part of Greater Upper Nile and therefore together with other communities in Jonglei state jointly find a way to peacefully co-exist together.
Through my understanding of your response to Butrus Ajak together with how you reference Deng Lueth’s Call, you have hijacked their well reasoned personal call for Peace and Unity and shifted it to your own understanding of anyone that is not standing with Kiir is automatically in league with Riek and his rebellion.
Dear Dr. Bior Kwer,
It is only in biological sciences where we have one choice of answer that forever remains as the right answer (say the structure and functions of the DNA), but in politic, there is no absolute right or wrong answer. It only depends on how you present your argument or a claim provide that you have given readers and listeners a well reasoned evidence.
If I were going to interpret these two guys calls using your one-way perspective, I wouldn’t either have problems with them because they have clearly stated the reason as to why Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor should do so. Deng Lueth Mayom clearly stated that these communities must first find peace in their backyard by jointly find way to live in peace with their neighboring communities.
In addition, Butrus Ajak has clearly stated his reason as to why these communities must Leave Kiir alone referencing how other individuals from the other side of the Nile have taken or misinterpreted Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor Killings.
I don’t know where you came up with the fallacious conclusion that they are calling on their respective communities to support the rebels instead of the government. If this is not what you are shifting their arguments to then I apologies but still not shifting to rebel or government mean shifting to their own way of finding peace that will later benefit both rebel and government.
In your own words you stated that, “this president was elected by all of us and any attempt to undo the majority’s will by force otherwise should be resist as an attack to our sovereignty”.
First and foremost, your rooting for the ‘democratically elected President’ would only be relevant if there was an attempted coup to depose a democratically elected president. But the fact of the matter is that there was no coup at all. Whatever happened was cooked up and then politically exploited by the government. It was the government that decreed a military coup against his POLITICAL opponents within the SPLM ruling party.
Secondly, what sovereignty are you alluding to? I doubt if that was attack on sovereignty. Sovereignty is for the state not for individuals within the state. The president was not constitutionally elected to decree military coups on politicians. Who was the military leader arrested by the president within his own guards? If at all the attack was on the sovereignty of the state, then it should be that the president attack the state.
Who are the ‘US’ that elected Mr. President? And who are the majority that their will is about to be undone by force? To me there is no majority. Each citizen is as important as other members of the majority, especially when it is a case that threaten his or her safety.
Butrus Ajak call for Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor to change their political alliance is for the safety of the civilians in those communities not about the position in the government. Whatever that will save their lives is what Butrus Ajak is urging them to seek as long as it comes within South Sudan.
Dr Bior Kwer, you also assert your high interest of Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor to stick with BEG relationship. Are we forming Dinka Nation or South Sudan Nation? Are you urging them to stick with BEG because of their leadership or because they speak the same language or is there any other valuable thing that should let them?
My apology, I am not anti any friendship being made by the two at community level; however, I am for relationship being built in the spirit of a South Sudanese brotherhood and sisterhood.
Lastly, you stressed your point trying to compare ‘91 war with the 2013 one, referencing Dr. Garang from Twic East being highly supported by fellows from BEG. You also mentioned other high military commanders from Bor, Dukeen and Twic East as part of liberation but were assisted by their fellow members of army from different regions in South Sudan.
You gave these examples to point Nyarweng, Hol, Twic East and Bor people to the path of being with the government. But do you really know the different between 1991 and 2013 war? The different is that people of South Sudan were fighting to liberate themselves from Arab in the North under Twic East’s Son leadership.
The mission was very clear: that is, it was a liberation Movement. When Dr. Riek made his plank attack against the SPLM Movement, it wasn’t taken by the entire South Sudan people as their personal issue with Dr John the Twic East son and the leader of the Movement but an issue that would bring SPLM vision to its knee. It was a threat to what all those South Sudanese’ sons and daughters went to the Bush for.
Though the 1991 massacre started at Nyarweng and Hol’s land, took three months in Twic East’s Land and end up in Bor’s Land, there was no an indication that it was only for these communities. These communities were being used as strategy or a path to weaken the movement. Again Riek was not only Fighting for Garang’s leadership but also against the goals, mission and vision of SPLM.
In different to 1991 conflict, 2013 conflict is about power struggle. It is okay for South Sudanese people to choose which side they think will put the country to the right path without them being subjected to hatred or label as supporting rebels.
I have read Butrus Ajak article many times thinking I will pick up something to understand why you are responding to him in a way you did. But rathar than that, I have found nothing but how hard it is for a scientist to become politician or to understand how politic differ from biological science.
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Iam Agiu Deng from Aweil [NBGS] . Ajak and Bior. Stop arguing on pointless issue just unite and mobilize your pple to fight those who killed your pple.this’s not the time of division a long sub-tribe lines or clans
please, please ma guys, stop shits and try your best to emulsified this war.