All Must Accept Arusha Peace Process: No Other Choices!
5 min readBy Kur Wel Kur
Dear citizens of my country,
January 24, 2015 (SSB) — Peace constructed and healed this planet many times; and the war opened old and new wounds million times; the history of our planet recorded it and continues to do so as I write this blog. That where peace stops; war begins. The nature of this planet placed this cycle hand in hand and a naturalist and an evolutionist, Charles Darwin, observed it. He described it as “a survival of the fittest”; meaning, we are who we are because of our parents’ and our own choices.
However, it takes God to choose a viable and lasting choices for all. With this in mind, we (South Sudanese) must allow God to walk on troubled water to save the sinking boat, our country. We must admit that our country went into war with itself because of power greed.
People demand leaders and for God to teach people, He chooses leaders appropriate to them (people) depending with times. For Christians, I must refer you to the book of ages, the bible. In it, people of Israel demanded a human king from God; that they want to conform to the ruling of this planet, where kings and governors lead and rule people, that they’re tired of God’s leadership. God gave them Saul as their king; he ruled them with human’s inequities. The Israelites went running and complaining about Saul to God and requested a change of a leadership. David earned himself followers so you either be with “David” or “Saul”; no in between! So those bystanders shouting neutrality at the top of their lungs are lying to themselves and to God. God rewards and punishes people in regard to their deeds (their sincere decisions).
Regardless of a clear distinction between friends and foes, peace process must take roots in our minds because no peace agreement too stupid, too small or helpless. Any tiny peace time saves millions and acts a stepping stone to even the bigger ones; an example, the Addis Ababa agreement of 1972, which the government of Khartoum dishonoured, harboured and flourished Dr. Garang on how comprehensive peace agreement would come to all South Sudanese. With this positive mood of 1972, all must welcome the Arusha Peace process. However, many of my country people sent mixed messages to the world, that the Arusha peace is a joke, that it lacks viability and that South Sudanese died in vain! Some of these messages reflect truth, but to stop deaths of thousands, we must accept the little God offers us through the fighting leaders. And rejecting it, will send your brothers to die in frontlines, sisters and mothers to suffer in foreign lands.
We must not forget that our problems and solutions come with the time; the world calendar presents in our faces the 21st century. This means comparing ourselves to Kenyans, Tanzanians and Ugandans is the main cause of our suffering. This places aside a habit of listening to empty phrases (democracy and human rights) from the first world countries. We must take baby steps in everything!
And even if we have to listen the voices of our neighbours and friends in the West, we must acknowledge democracy as a total domination over minority. I wouldn’t transport you thousand miles by airbus across Indian, Pacific or Atlantic Ocean to show you how democracy stepped and continues to step on minority; however, Kenya offers us with an observable example. In fifty two years of Kenyans’ independence, only 4 presidents have ruled Kenya of which 3 in 4 presidents are from Kikuyu, the biggest tribe in Kenya. The odd one (Daniel Arap Moi) out of 4 presidents was a friend to the first president of Kenya and definitely groomed and recommended by him to lead Kenya.
So those Manilla papers with big letters spelling democracy are environmental disasters, a waste of energies and times because democracy is a factor of majority! If life were a single sided journey, I would advise the 64 tribes in South Sudan to choose what they must do to live their lives without interference! For example, let the Dinka takes up the education system, Zande with the agriculture… and Acholi with the government; however, unfortunately, it doesn’t work as simple as these examples because life models itself in three dimensions (3D). We live our lives in gangs; gangs’ conflicts bring deaths and sufferings. Bunches of gangs run the systems in our country; they brought war!
A Zande farmer needs a powerful friend or relative (maybe a General or Brigadier general) in the military for his farm products to find their ways to the market without taxes and necessary charges because he uses military trucks to transport his products; same farmer needs another friend/relative in the security agency, in the police department, in the education system, in the bank, in the council of ministers and the list goes…. This, the nature of this war. Nevertheless, any peace is good.
Yrs.’ Kur Wel Kur.
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