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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

I Choose Peace

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By Maketh Ajak

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I have no blood left, only tears.

These senseless wars have gorged out my eyes

but I have chosen to use my wounds,

like pollen grains, to attract the bees of peace.

When peace is an option everyone should be a volunteer.

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We can’t risk another broken generation

of disables, of orphans, of widows and widowers,

of lost boys, of children weaned on gunfire,

of children whose umbilical cords are cut with the sound of a gun,

of children raised in the minefields of bad blood,

of grown men and women breastfed by UNHCR;

no we can’t, my dear South Sudanese brothers and sisters, no.

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