Duonne Yi Piou Co Lo Tuk Ajak Deng Chiengkou
4 min readBy PaanLuel Wel, Kampala
I dun understand it, bellows Dan Warabek. Ajak Deng Chiengkou has been decreed a rebel. Duonne yi piou be co lo tuk Ajakdit; we are all rebels.
I yam going to illustrate it pireen.
Wende Mabior Atem rebelled against Khartoum when he declared: “Khartoum is too deformed to be reformed.”The implied conclusion was that khartoum was a legitimate candidate for total destruction.
Wende Machar Teny rebelled against Garang when he shouted:”John Garang Must Go.” It meant that Garang would be removed by hooks and crooks, come what may.
Wende Mayardit rebelled against Garang when he publicly sworn that, “Garang never forget or forgive and anyone who quarrel with him end up dead…those who are misleading you will go together with you or suffer together with you.” The implication was that the only way Kiir was to avoid death was to get rid of Garang.
Wende Machar Teny rebelled against President Kiir in December 2013 when he said: “Kiir has lost legitimacy, has failed the country, has killed the Nuer civilians and he must step down.” The reality is that Riek is presently waging a deadly war against Juba.
Let me tell you my pireen, each of these rebel leaders command/ed a sizeable army of supporters, armed or otherwise, from among the South Sudanese people.
It isn’t therefore necessarily a question of who is a rebel; rather, it is a daunting question of who is not a rebel. Let me tell you my pireen, we are all nyageet, whether by declaration, participation or association.
I, wende Warabengdit, is simply asking the army of the self-decreed “patriots”: does being labelled a rebel really matter if the likes of David Yau Yau are the hottest boys in town, the frequent guests of honor within the gov’t ministries, public functions and gatherings, Churches and on SSTV?
Let me tell you my pireen, Yau Yau massacred my relatives in Paliau and Maar and my brothers and sisters in Jalle. Yet, this is the same man President Kiir never fail to praise and acknowledge in public functions.
Where are all the “patriots” so allergic to a rebel to publicly shame the President and to deal with the rebel Yau Yau? Do your rules have exceptions? Are you, by any way, selective? Will you commit suicide (declare war/coup) when Prime Minister Riek Machar triumphantly lands in Juba and assumes his powers?
Riek, who sneaked out of Juba in December 2013 like a thief, will make a big deal out of his return: what will you do “patriots”? Where will you go to? Hell?
Yau Yau was rewarded with a new state and a post of a governor. Does it matter being a rebel my dear”patriots”? Riek is rewarded with the post of a prime minister and half of the gov’t. Does being a rebel matter to you my dear “patriots”?
Moreover, is anyone among you my dear “patriots” opposed to the blanket amnesty given to the rebels including the likes of Peter Gadet who is responsible for the death of Gen. Ajak Yen and Gen. Abraham Jongroor, and Kerubino Kuanyin in the not-so distant past?
If people like Yau Yau and Gadet are not legitimate topics for discussion among my dear “patriots”, how could a mere employee of SBS Dinka Radio be? My dear”patriots”, aren’t you unwittingly cheapening the supposedly abominative taboo attached to the word “rebel”? What will you use next if the word rebel loses its bullet-ness?
Besides, why would anyone bother to fish for rebels abroad when they are deadly available in the battlefields across the country? Do “patriots” have more prime ministerial posts (Riek) or a new state (Yau Yau) to manufacture more rebels? Don’t you have enough rebels to occupy your time to fish for more?
Since the best my dear “patriots” can do is to momentarily talk tough only to end up creating new STATES and POSITIONS that run contrary to OUR DEAR CONSTITUTION, my legitimate, constitutional and democratic question is this: what new State or Position you got this time round for the newly minted rebel Ajak Deng Chiengkou?
Of course, you can’t possibly discriminate against him like what you did to George Athor Deng, can you? Be honest. I yam not yet convince that the gov’t of the “patriots” is only against the Dinka rebels, but too readily willing to go to bed with the rest.
Enlighten me please,I may be wrong and we may give rebel Ajak Deng Chiengkou a false hope.
I, Dan Warabek, wanna know how you process and come to your constitutional, democratic and legitimate decisions. It is strangely confusing and very frightening.
Sooner than later, the fright and bewilderment engender in me by your constitutional, democratic and legitimate decisions will rival the terror of the rebels.
I yam Dan Warabek. I belong to the gov’t, I belong to the rebels, I belong to South Sudan. I yam a South Sudanese, you are a South Sudanese, they are South Sudanese too. We are South Sudanese.
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