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Nuer Nation: No Third Time Compromise Under Salva Kiir Again

By Lam Wuor

President Uhuru Kenyatta: We witnessed the signing of the SPLM Reunification Agreement between South Sudan President Salva Kiir, Dr. Riek Machar and Mr. Deng Alor Kuol which was overseen by Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete in Arusha, Tanzania. The signing of the agreement will help the SPLM work together. The framework will reunite the party which many South Sudanese had placed their hopes on. Some of us have been involved in this particular process since the beginning of the crisis, and indeed it has been very agonizing at times to see leaders unable to talk to one another and yet they were the same leaders the people of South Sudan depended on to guide the young republic after struggling for many years. We hope that the instruments that have been signed here will form the basis of bringing about peace in South Sudan which is the hope of the South Sudan and the East Africa region as a whole.
President Kiir and Riek Machar during the Arusha accord.

January 30, 2015 (SSB) It’s very disturbance to compromise again and again with the same people and the same party which has ideology of depopulating other community in the country, the Arusha deal for party reunification is annoying many people, there should be no another compromise between victims and the perpetrators.

Example, Any Anya II and Nasir faction compromised with John Garang because the Any Anya II and Nasir faction leadership had put the country interest first then power interest, however, that kindness of forgiveness is being used in negative thinking and that is why Salva Kiir said “ a dog lives with you at home and when you beat him he will runaway but still will come lay down near you because he has nowhere to go and live” killing the innocent Nuer civilians seems normal from Salva kiir comparing them like runaway dog from home especially children, women and men were targeted by state security and murdered because of being Nuer (one of the tribe in South Sudan) ethnic group.

In a nutshell, the President of South Sudan doesn’t think that he is responsible for incident in which he personally ordered his presidential guards to target ethnic Nuer in the capital on December 16, 2013. In reality, the Nuer always accepts the compromise for love of peace in the country not a leadership weakness. In this case of the Nuer massacre there would be no such compromise again.

Why we can’t take the best example from Eritrean people who fought for 50 years and they eventually achieved their objectives,I think better to be in exile then going back under Salva Kiir because he will consider it as failure while compromise exists when two parties try to find a halfway point for resolution. One advantage is that the outcome can generally be seen as fair to both parties because each gets something in return. This can also solve a short-term conflict while laying the foundation to resolving a long-term problem.

The disadvantage of a compromise is that neither party leaves the negotiating table completely happy. Since compromises are short-term, they usually indicate that another conflict will occur in the future, This come through collaboration in which we called the win-win form of conflict resolution in which, at the end of negotiations, both parties feel they have gained something and no one feels as if they lost something, I courage you all to stand firm to defend our right and the future of our generation.

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