The Imperative for Peaceful Co-existences in South Sudan
PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCES IN SOUTH SUDAN
By Bol Garang
South Sudanese government and other supportive Non-governmental organizations are pugnacious to reach peaceful solution with group of Riek Machar rebel who recently committed many brutalities in the country. Nevertheless, that will not produce permanent peace to people of South Sudan because people are neglecting that every corner of South Sudan is having a problem, every community have inner problem that requisite to be elucidated for peaceful settlement but mismanagement will result into violence in most places.
The problem will generate when border demarcation come into effect because all communities have lived across different places since war skirmish started until now. Therefore, I have seen some other communities have now started retaining other people land because they have been there for long time or they made an illegal agreement with individuals in the community but that will never work. I am optimistic that when county demarcation, Payam demarcation, Boma demarcation up to swamp areas start, it will cause inter-communal conflict because people survive mostly on those places. Therefore, if our government and judiciary will work together according to history without preconception I think it will be manageable.
Furthermore, Twic East community will be among South Sudan communities that will be very stiff to demarcate it borders because communities have gigantic history tensions within since up to date. Therefore, to prevent any community internal violence I suggest our chiefs and community elders could start preparation early from now on to avoid communal war later. If not then, I cogitate it will be nastiest than what we have experiences in years back because of the environment and other kind of devastations in the area.
Moreover, I could recommend our people to start manual demarcation and reconciliation currently in good faith to clear out history tensions and start new life for our betterment. I know Twic East Country have other communities with egoism, other with braveness and others can’t comprehend themselves based on history tension but our people need to solve those before border demarcation instead of bloodshed later in our county in the future.
To sum up, I need peaceful coexistences within our communities, I need border demarcation not to cause violence within communities, I need good understanding between communities, and I need unity within South Sudanese communities
Bol Garang “Man far away from Corruption” or “Distance yourself from corruption” “knowledge is Power” and “Unity is key to Success”
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