28/09/2014: Happy Sunday Junubeen

“On July 27th, 2005, when Dr. John Garang arrived in Rumbek from Khartoum, we had an impromptu meeting to welcome the chairman. After the meeting, few of us remained behind under the big tree to chat with the chairman. Mama Rebecca Nyandeeng had gone home to cook. Then the chairman turned to Comrade Salva Kiir and said: ‘Remember what I said in 1984 after we had formed the movement? By then we had thought that the war would be over within few years and we would come out of the bush to enjoy our freedom. Then I had a dream in which I dreamt that we had achieved our liberation but only two of us were remaining, out of the founders. When I narrated this dream to our comrades then, Kerubino had shouted me down, saying, yin ya apiedh. So I kept quiet. Now it has taken us over 21 years to capture a geographical region called South Sudan. But I don’t know how long it may take us to capture the minds of Junubeen.” ~~Recalled Comrade Aguil de Chut Deng, on the 27th of September 2014, Juba Grand Hotel, Juba, South Sudan.