Dear United States, What’s Going On In South Sudan?
6 min readWhat’s going on? What’s it that I am hearing? Is it true that you manipulate leaders of oil-rich third-world countries? That you cripple economies of such countries in a bid to bring them to a controllable state?
Being the youngest world nation and filthy oil-rich, I am trembling. To be sincere, I am scared to death. In order to be able to describe my fears and worries fully, I will accuse you in advance for what is likely to happen in South Sudan in a few years to come. In fact, I attribute my current political turmoil to your long destructive invisible hand.
I just “communicated” with one of your natives named John Perkins, an economic activist and author. He told me everything about what you did to get to the top of the world and what you are doing to stay up there. With the help of the media, coupling with your immense influence around the world, you incriminate good leaders; demonize them and eventually destroy them. I understand that you routinely send in your heartless agents secretly known as economic hit men to do the job.
In his book entitled The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins reveals that “Economic hit men are highly-paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and other foreign ‘aid’ organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigging of elections, payoffs, extortion, sex and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.”
Do you have the guts to deny that? Here are few reminders of what you did in the past.
In the 1950s, Iran, a country floating on oil, was being governed by a democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh, a man of the people. Britain which happens to be your sweetheart was controlling the oil production. They were undoubtedly obviously sucking it dry. When Mosaddegh assumed power in 1951, he rightfully ended the deal and nationalized the oil. This pissed you off. With your greed for power, you jumped in with a road map for dethroning Mosaddegh. You and your baby girl Britain attacked him on many fronts; instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically, bribed street goons, clergy, politicians and Iranian army officers to take part in a propaganda campaign against Mosaddegh and his government. After a period of resistance, you managed to have him arrested, tried and convicted of treason by a military court. As if that was not enough, you sentenced him to a three-year imprisonment, and then placed him under house arrest for the remainder of his life. You also had his supporters rounded up, imprisoned, tortured or executed.
In early 2000s, you doctored facts about Late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Weapons of Mass Destruction, claiming that he was a threat to the whole universe. In the name of disarming Hussein, you invaded Iraq. You inflamed animosity between Sunni and Shia communities. You had Iraqi’s physical infrastructure destroyed to ashes. You manufactured thousands of widows, widowers, orphans and homeless people in the country. You deprived the innocent civilians of humanity. Iraq is now a nation of cannibals. The repercussions of your action are incomputable. Did you find the Weapons of Mass Destruction, anyway? Everyone knew you were lying. All you wanted was to stunt Iraq’s rise. You never wanted to see it grow.
While I appreciate your efforts in uplifting me from nothingness, including your tireless efforts that resulted in the achievement of South Sudan’s independence gotten through the 2011 referendum you funded, I am not happy about what is going on right now in South Sudan, and I bet you’re part of it.
For instance, the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair just forced his way into the affairs of South Sudan as an advisor to the government. Now tell me the truth; what exactly is Blair’s mission in South Sudan? – To advise President Kiir? On what? I have a feeling that Mister Blair has some hidden agendas that are only known to you and him, and one of them might be:
Blair is one of your economic hit men unleashed to teach President Kiir a lesson for unheeding your numerous pieces of advice particularly the one known to South Sudanese people as “Obama 13.” This was a list containing names of 13 top government officials you thought to have been the reason why the young nation never grew an inch developmentally as they stole and hived up billions of dollars. For some reasons, President Kiir either thoughtfully or thoughtlessly trashed the advice and went ahead and retained the infamous Obama 13 in the government. This probably angered you. So, I think the current coup rumors in the country are an outcome of Kiir’s ignorance. The idea is intended to plunge leaders and citizens into the sea of confusion, of which is now taking effect. Some senior security officials are currently in detention camps, and South Sudanese are divided over the issue, with some textually terrorizing each other on the internet. How do you feel about that now? – Happy, uh?
Secondly, even my illiterate grandmother in the village knows that Tony Blair is a hungry insatiable oil dealer. He mixes business with charity call but claims that he keeps the two separate. Is he really in South Sudan to preach good governance or to find ways to virtually connect my oil pipelines to his motherland, Scotland? Remember business breeds dishonesty.
Two, I am worried about the presence of the USAID and many other aids agencies in South Sudan. No doubt it’s doing a great job including support for educational projects, health and sanitation. But the acronym USAID is imprinted on almost everything in the country, even on the walls of latrines and tree barks! Why is it so? Isn’t it another way of holding the country hostage?
What exactly do you want? – The oil? I understand that President Kiir is taking too long to choose who to trade with as far as the oil is concerned but don’t you think it’s too early for you to meddle in my affairs. I am too young to be tampered with. Look, half a population is living below the poverty line, physical infrastructure is non-existent, child death rate is the worst in the world, with 103 deaths per 1,000 births, leaders are corrupt to the born, and illiteracy rate is standing at 88%. Now tell me, if you can’t wait for another time to get what you want, don’t you think your unseen hand will create uncorrectable mess?
I know Kiir disrespected you by brushing your ideas off but you should take it lightly. If you want him out of presidency, leave it to his subjects. Most of them are already fed up with his policies. I bet they will vote him out should he dare stand in the 2015 general elections.
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