By Obang O. Minnesota, USA
Brethren and sisters of south Sudan, Please let us come to our senses now if we really need peace in our newborn country. We need to jointly find prompt lasting peace in our country from our President Salva Kiir and DR. Raick Machaer to agree on principal to bring this conflict to an end.
Brethren and sister we will choose to continue this war but it will get worse more than what we are seeing now. If we are wishing to defeat the government or the rebel that is the same of saying that we are fighting for our own self interest and not care about people who are just dying because of your personal interest. What I don’t like is killing our innocent civilians who have not benefit from our CPA since our struggle to get our independent and continue to suffer today because of gain power by force.
We all know what happened to our country since independent. There were no development in ten states, corruption, nepotism, tribalism, discrimination, land grabbing, and forget to develop our rich country to share the same bread we fought for that was not even given or share by the northern regime sine the independent of Sudan in 1956 from British and Egyptian. Instead our elected official taking the national money for themselves, their families and immediate families and forget betterment of our new nation.
There are more mistake that happened in our country but if we continue to look for the bad side of a solution we will not go anywhere instead we will perish more of our innocent citizens who do not know even the system of our government. My point is to forgive ourselves, reconcile and open a new chapter for the sack of peace in our new nation. That doesn’t mean that we forget all the things that happened in our country and to our people since our independent but just to start serving our people as we promise to do when we were in the bush from 1983.
Let us stop blaming ourselves, our government, and in opposition. Let tell the president and Dr. Rieck that South Sudanese need peace and no more to war!! In term of ICC issues, I think we know now who is waiting of western accusation of international criminal court. What happened in Juba, Bor town, Bentiu, Malakal and other places has been listed by international observer in our country; let wait the truth of those accusations. Those who were on the ground will tell us and share that with the world then. For now let focus on getting our riches country into its feet to share benefits with his citizens this time around.
My point here is for the 64 tribes to unite together and find lasting solution to this crisis before it really turn to tribal war as western world previously called it. We have to know that if we continue preaching for war to continue, whoever is going in that direction to know that he r she is building hatred among our 64 tribes of our beautiful nation.
This is my personal idea to this war and I will continue to say it!!
God bless south Sudan.