It’s up to 80% SPLM/A IO rebels to choose between unwinnable war and the future of their children with no schools
3 min readBy David Aoloch Bion
Since December 15, 2013, only 10% of the rebels children went to school for the year 2014. These are the children of the rebels’ senior commanders and others who were working in the government before the war and who are now meeting in Pagak . 90% of the rebel’s children did not go to schools; these are the children of ordinary soldiers from the rank of private to major , because these categories of rebels have no money to pay their children school fees abroad since the schools are disrupted by the war in Greater Upper Nile . Secondly, the other rebels children are in UN base camps with no schools.
On the other hand , the children of the Government soldiers have been studying for the year 2014 in Greater Bare el gazal and Greater Equatoria . These children go to schools because their fathers are in the battlefield but are paid monthly.. Secondly these regions are peaceful..
It is up to these 90% rebels’ soldiers to accept peace offer and come and receive the salaries of January 2015 or the children will spend another year 2015 without going to school for the lack of school fees or staying in the UN base camps, because their counterpart on government sides will receive January 2015 salaries and their children will go to school for the year 2015.
It is up to the SPLM/A IO leadership in Pagak to decide on whether that the Greater Upper Nile will have one generation of illiterates like Southern Sudan had the one generation of illiterates from 1983 to 2005 or accept peace and they let their children go to school like other states.
Greater Upper Nile is being destroyed and will be destroyed by the war while other regions are progressing and will be progressing in term of development which will have long term benefits on the population.
To the rebels , the war , you are fighting is unwinnable because (a) you claims President Kiir is dictator but no any single source or person or nation apart you (SPLM/AIO) have proven this . (b) the outside observers are saying war was a result of the failure of leadership , this means failure of leadership is not tantamount to dictatorship . (c) The world over is calling for the win –win solution, this is why IGAD propose the position of the Prime Minister.
Dear rebels, it is up to you to choose between the future of your children without schools and the unwinnable war,, you are waging , mind about the future of SPLM/A IO and mind about the future of your own children without schools in the years of war. from now onward
Look in the war of independence from 1983 to 2005, the children of SPLA commanders were studying and the children of the ordinary soldiers were not., look , what happened now in Juba , all children of commanders are working in good jobs while the children of ordinary soldiers are now redundant on the street because they don’t have the qualification.
Therefore choose between the unwinnable war and the future of your own children , the government is ready to integrate all rebels who accept peace whether you are white army or a defector , government is ready to pay you the salaries of January 2015 . .
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