What Does Dances Tells Us
4 min readBy Heskey Dzeng
If I look back, I shed river of tears, I recalled innocent people, who have vanished curtly in this senseless war of money and leadership. I do not see contentment in me, oh my God! but I wonder why madness and foolishness driven us off to did inhuman thing, celebrated released Dr. Majak D. Agoot with emotional dancing in eyes of thousands who have lost their loved, what did it tells the greater Bor community in whole, it even discolor our integrity in South Sudan in one way and another way.
I was upset when I seen people dancing, in such an archaic manners with all sorts of provocative folklore, while in Juba and other towns, there is no day that pass without bad news and even funeral tents. As we are still mourning for our people, what did it means really?
Is Dr. Majak better than 2007 innocent civilians we have lost in Bor and more other to lose or estimated 10 people who have killed in South Sudan since violence broke out? Did that Lhor Jieng/leng/bull will bring them back to alive, if yes then it is good news and your ‘leng’ was blessed
Obviously, People dance when they are happy, when people are not mourning, when people are not homeless but now what did this means? We should have to share a pain with those who lost their beloved. I think we are the generations that a Nuer believed prophet Ngundeng talked about ‘they will die while laughing and dancing, so this is us.
Well, give me a break, I am not against released of Dr. Majak D Agoot, I’m so thrilled for his freed with other comrades Pagan Amum, Oyai Deng and more others, because their freed will contribute to much for peace or how to get peace and stability back in South Sudan which is an edge of collapsing, but that cannot moved me [you] to dance.
So if we were genuine enough, we could welcome Dr. Majak home with exhilaration. Showing our sentiment, glee or elation inside, but not through beating a drum and jumped up and down, singing offensive songs, but devil misled us, oh God help!
Put it simply, for those who decided that, you have brought shame and verbal abuse to your son first and then to Bor community, it does not make sense, celebrating with drum and songs while forgetting thousands of civilians’ massacre in the Country.
While our people in Twic East, Bor South and Duk Counties are on run, are homeless, suffering at swamp areas. Denies camping in Equatorian lands, and even no single day passed without mourning and funerals, while our lands is warzone, let’s think twice.
Although, Dr. Majak D Agoot was detained of false accusation, we should not celebrate with dancing and beating of drum, slaughter of cows, this is foolishness that makes us to done such spiteful thing.
If we were smart in mind, we can do event without dance, just to advice him and encouraging to work for peace and stability and to forget what happened to him.
But now we added salt into injury, how will the one who lost his/her beloved, brother, father, mother, sister and cousin in this politicians’ war feel. How will observers, who understood our suffering, quote us? We needs to reasoning thing first.
This is what Nigerians called Abomination; simply you have brought abomination to your clan and greater Bor. Now you have opened all the windows to all useless people [s] to throw insulting words to us [Bor Community].
All in all, it is work of foolishness and madness, instead to cry with those who have lost their beloved and comfort them, we did opposite, and instead to crying with those who are crying, mourning with those who are mourning and joins them in their huts and console and strength them; we are even making them weak and lament deepen, it is so shame.
More so, it was not right time for any person [s] in Dinka Bor [Bor Community] to beat leng [drum], but time to comfort and console our people because this violence has put us into square one. We better to comforting widowers, widows, and orphans and wounded of this senseless war but it is shame, shame, shame to forgetting earlier what happened in our land and to our people in Bor.
Yes we should be happy but not extend to dances.
In God we must stand with victim [s]
Heskey Dzeng @2014
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Good topic spoilt by grammar. Regards
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