ARE DUKEEN AND TWIC EAST COUNTIES REBELS?
3 min readDUKEEN AND TWIC EAST COUNTIES ARE REBELS: A LANGUAGE USE TO SUPPORT PERSONAL RESUME.
By Mama Junub
By definition- what is rebel?? In the recent infamous South Sudan conflict the term rebel has been a song on every politician and civil society lip hence the users of the term itself are struggling to find who is rebel before the true meaning of the word itself. In its simplest form “a rebel” could be someone who rebelled against the government just like Anya Nya one and two and the recent SPLA. At the meantime I will base my writing on the above definition.
Said by X or Y it must be address. Are Dukeen and Twic East counties Rebel?
The non-evidence-base accusation was previously yet currently used by those politicians struggling to keep themselves in power. Those whose position is shaken by the current power struggle in SPLM party. Since cabinet reshuffling last year the tension between the so made up greater Bor politicians has been very intense with Makuei Lueth (President closet Ally) lobbying for the removal of High Ministerial Dukeen and Twic East politicians in the government. Makuei as one Bor County politician extended his previous anger with National decease politician from Twic East as motive of his effort to disgrace these two counties in national and international media. Widely Makuei is deliberately reworking his historical memories of the conflict to engender or strengthen his position in the competition for power and resources and to gain the likes button from his Boss.
Yet can one man position put two communities in wrongly politicise position?
This question remained unanswered by those in favoured of his recent infamous statement on the press release. Yet the categorisation of these two counties will overturn the conflict in either way around and not only will it affect Makuei position but the togetherness of greater Bor people. His remark on current national crisis against these two counties has create conflict or the conditions in which it’s likely to occur. In addition any given society organised so that some people are treated unequally and unjustly is likely to erupt into conflict, especially if its leaders don’t represent all the members of that society. Makuei has created an unequal and unjust Greator Bor society instead of adding more to his resume.
To gives you few answers to the above question, Dukeen and Twic East trained soldiers are tirelessly fighting with government ever since. On the other hand civilians are fighting in defend of their territories with No government support. Not because they are loyal to President Kiir or his partner in Opposition Dr Riek but to the General public of South Sudan. The death cause by the conflict is relatively the same in each conflicting tribes not even the counties of greater Bor so where did the accusation comes from??
Some low-intelligent-self-proclaimed writers from Bor County gives shallow evidence such as why didn’t White Army started Killing in Twic or Dukeen. Stupid! Do killings of Twic East and Dukeen’s civilians justify their loyalty to the government? Others urge untrained as well as unarmed civilians to fight armed organised army, where is the salaried national army? Personally the goals and objectives of the fighting itself are unclear. Let’s not forget that the fighting started with two competing men followed by their competing allies. Dukeen and Twic Counties must fight in self-defence like the doing now in Poktap instead of following the river of Massacre and death and you can called them rebel or go hanged yourself
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