TO MY YOUNG GENERATION
9 min readBy Nyalueth Lual, Australia.
Hopefully, this man made disaster ends, and the young nation rises in a new dawn, new beginning and a totally new way of thinking among ourselves.
It’s dating way back as far as my memories could take me. I have encountered heated political debates but I had to stay afar from such. These were statuses by some people criticizing a certain prominent figure in our Government. Then from blue, another would interfere and condemn the owner of the post saying, “How dare you talk about my uncle like that? Thinking that they were helping by being over protective of their relatives accused of things such as corruption. By doing this, they were unaware that they were revealing a tribal mindset as well as their ignorance.
The pervasive ignorance that has diffused in to our people seems to have engulfed our integrity. As I write this, enemies of the truth with limited mentality will accuse me tomorrow in their childish criticism for relentless nagging as well as attention seeking. However, I cannot be psychologically restrained to stipulate to silence when I have something to share with my young misguided generation whom I will only meet in large number here on fb.
Ever since this chaotic moments started, we’ve felt into confusion, blaming games being the common tools, however were being misused. Tribes, victims and even those criticizing the operators of atrocities fell into to the direction of finger point due to the same ignorance. Even worse, we had given credit and titles that exalted the name of those villains including the way this violence was describe as a quest for DEMOCRACY.
I have spent many years living as an immigrant/refugee in democratic countries, but what I know so far about Democracy is that its most special attribute is settling disputes in the Government in a non violent manner. I was expecting my young generation to stand up tall and denounce this violence as a form of achieving democracy and give it a zero tolerance at any cost. You don’t even have to invent excuses as to why it happened, no words could convince us because this is a pure violation of human rights.
I do not deny that the faction was provoked as they say. They might as well provoke the other group or even if not so, ‘Politics is a dirty game’ according to the saying. This means it is composed of manipulation, humiliation, annoyance etc. These are the clever tactics politicians use against themselves to trigger any ugliness out of each other and in order to expose to the public hence their opponents loss reputation and trust of their voters.
I’m one of those who will not aspire to be politician because I know it such a demanding career. It takes a person with the heart of the purest gold to get down to their knees, and serve humanity at it’s best. Whose problem is it when someone join politics without emotional, intellectual, financial etc readiness? I have seen great leaders who devoted themselves to give to their people or to the world but have encountered political downfalls in their tough journey eg Kevin Rudd of Australia, humiliated by being toppled overnight by members of his party. He wept in the national media. Some have gone to jails for almost 30 yrs, have mice and crawling roaches as their room mates but still came out of jail with their heads up high and accomplish their mission of giving to humanity, eg Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Some patiently waited for so long for their turn, and later got it at a costly expense of attempted assassination which left them handicapped eg Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. Others sadly didn’t make it such as Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and continue with the list.
As a lover of peace, I tell you such because I want to create an awareness of this toxic politics that are slowly dragging our young nation to it’s early grave. If I have to ask you about the current situation in our country which seems to have found a stance, that it’s is happening for a good course. To briefly narrate to you, where does it resembles democracy? From the disagreement among the SPLA/M, to the escalation of war because they couldn’t settle their problems. Or is it the part where an adult rushed to his village and ask our future Doctors/ Lawyers etc, told them to relinquish their school work and take up arms in order to show a political colleague whom they disagreed at work place which is miles away from the village a piece of their minds. Simply because he can’t handle the situation on his own. At the same time, his dearest friends whom he left behind were put to jail but the young men must sacrifice their lives to bail them out of jail instead of sparing our young lives and look for other non violent way to help his friend out of jail. How mature is that? Also to the wide spread violence, killing, looting and damaging of properties, Where does it seems right to you?
Young Sudanese beware, of the false prophets and cone man with their naïve politics. Your politicians are your representatives/your voice, because they even get paid to do what they do. For how long will you exchange bitter words with a friend over a status that seems to touch your relatives whom we know are our public servants? How many young lives do we have to lose because of these politicians who enter into politics immature? You are not here to represent them in the communities, they are the ones to serve you if you understand what I mean. We perceive politics as a the only way to employment, a source of wealth, power and fame. As a matter of fact, we worship our politicians. Governments do not create jobs for your information. Western countries are not build by politics alone. Their is an interdependency of politics with other firm institutions and that’s why their politicians serve them and make decisions after only consulting experts of other institutions. Eg economical decisions based on advices of the experts in that field, consult scientist regarding climate change etc.
What is there to revere in politics which seems to be the only inspirational field for my young generation even if most don’t have what it takes to be there? This also explains the weakness of our current politicians who are confused for getting into the wrong field. These have made some to turn into thieves and even signing cheap contracts of our oil with cowboy entrepreneurs, get a little percentage of the share to enrich themselves but to impoverish the nation. Some became womanizers and murderers. Some who were catapulted from the only experience of their house hold budgeting of bills and groceries straight away to budget complex national projects. Without scorn but sincerity, I don’t think our mother knows of how many zeros are there in a million/billion. It shouldn’t surprise us why the ‘million dollar’ jobs weren’t done.
I’m desperate for change, from real leadership and real democracy as any of you. We need leaders who are more of humanitarians than politicians. Not even Garang’s family knows what democracy looks like since he died before putting his views into real practice in a ‘democratic state’. We do not need to drown our nation recklessly in the name of democracy which we don’t fully understand. Any politician should be mature enough and not involving civilians into their politics. Political world is a harsh environment and so you should be well prepared for it. If you don’t have what it takes to be one, then don’t step your feet in there. Period.
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It’s such a joke isn’t it? A month has passed already while our new democrats are still gambling with lives, ‘not under the trees’, but in the luxurious conference room unlike the old democratic fighters. This democratic fighters will have a nice meal and spend their night in a five star hotel whereas the old liberators were eating leaves of any kind and spent their days in scorching sun, and their nights in breezing cold or worse enough, in the rain. Well, further differences is that the old democratic movement was mainly about being forcefully subjected under sharia law and some other issues while the new one is about disagreement in the political party. Also, old one was settled politically several times from the 1970s but failed while the new one has never been settled but erupted into a war outright. We all know this was a negligence of our leaders, and so there would be no suffering of our people, the civilians and military on both sides.
But again they are continuing with the same negligence on the peace negotiating table. We all understand that this is suppose to be a peace talk, not a court of appeal. Also, there could be detainees who could be proven innocent as well as those to be held accountable, only if their trial is done in the real court with the whole nation serving as the witness. Unfortunately, the peace negotiation deal was turned into a court room. No judges, lawyers or jury yet this has become the biggest deal to deny a ceasefire for Southerners to enjoy their peace once again.
For God’s sake, intellectuals should settle their cases through law, not by military force. They confidently say, “If you do not release the prisoners, this war shall never end”. Prisoners who are fairly wealthy to hire lawyers who could simply justify their innocence, yet they are sacrificing human blood to win victory over their case. So are the politicians in jail more important than the ones dying on the frontline because of them? These politicians have other chances to go back to court or can be visited in jail by their relatives, while the dead will never see their loved ones.
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I am not a fan a politics since day one. I am neither trying to please anyone or gain cheap attention from fb. I will never stop speaking the truth because it’s is disheartening how people think you are playing blame games.
I was watching a television one day on Dr. Phil who was counseling a daughter of a serial killer. He told her to stop visiting him in prison because she could be his fathers next victim anytime if he was not detained. She couldn’t understand because her father loved them and cared for them all those years, but Phil assured her that, these kind of people don’t love anyone, and it’s only a matter of time before you become their opposition in anything and their dark side would click in. I have just witnessed the same here on facebook.
I have always spoke for peace and also justice for innocent civilians but others have drained it into themselves that I’m blaming their people. People of your kind are the ones encouraging tribalism and gave rise to people like Hitler by supporting his satanic views. We have criminals that have hold our country hostage for their operational evil. They have halt development, stopped businesses, deter any charity organization and worse of all, stole the fathers, mothers, relatives and our future doctors lawyers, engineers etc. I can’t believe that I have also witnesses our next generation of rebels in the making here on facebook.
Don’t support anyone be it from the govt. side or rebel’s because you will only understand when you become their victim who could perish during one of their unpredictable crossfires that erupt from no where due to their greed, incase if you are not minding about the innocent civilians. I would just call for the release of detainees but justice to follow so that no any other person take innocent lives for granted. I can’t even believe this has become a moment where our Govt. is making peace with our enemy, the North and Yaw Yaw, who just committed his recent crime by killing the Lou Nuer civilians.
Just stand for civilian, that’s my message.
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