Is South Sudan Really a Kid of the 21st Century Everyone Wants to Try Jokes on?
5 min readBy Ariik Atekdit, South Sudan
April 28, 2015 (SSB) —- In the house the youngest kid is the one that at least every family member and any visitor try to joke with. Perhaps because kids are very funny and have interesting responses when asked; at the time of stress kids can joke with their parents, uncles, aunts or elder siblings just to make them glad. At least every person tries to fashion peace with kids because kids are always innocent creatures.
This time around the West kid us to destroy our country and bring in the rule of UN Trusteeship to South Sudan. Will South Sudanese accept UN Trusteeship? They must first repair Libya and bring back alive Col. Maumur Gadaffi before messing up with any African country, otherwise it will be a wrong joke this time.
Nowadays, the world leaders and even those who are not renowned politicians of their countries want to joke on us trying their political cleverness in South Sudan, at least to joke with the words of: “you are just the world’s youngest country; the African newborn child” that is belittling us, right? With threats to sign fake peace agreement or face sanctions or else the UN trusteeship will take over the ruling of South Sudan.
It would be good if they were for the solidarity with us. But now we have seen that they are not happy with our standing upright. They are not happy that South Sudan, a country which has started not with a telephone landline but with mobile networks wants to compete with them in many other developments that they have been controlling before our arrival to the status of sovereignty and a republic nation.
Since the beginning of the ongoing crisis the so-called international community, the IGAD regional bloc and the TROIKA have looked us down as if they were not doing the affairs of the country that we fought for and wrote down our history of independence using our dear blood.
The IGAD with the pressure of the TROIKA has accepted many times to bring wrong proposals with the interest to keep the war on South Sudan and its people. Every time they bring documents and they proposed and presented to the two rival parties to either accept it or refuse.
Where on earth do you have peace being negotiated that way? As a principle, it is always the two rivaling parties that should present their areas of disagreement and slowly, little by little the mediators would come in to sandwich the ideas so that the two sides can agree on certain points but not with threat of sanctions and an arms embargo issues just to crush in a bad peace accord.
Our leaders must open their bold eyes and watch carefully the said world’s wise men that sit in big hotels in Addis Ababa to trade with blood of our South Sudanese who for the last fifty years have fought for freedom and voted for independence some four years ago. We did all that with knowledge! Our forefathers had dreamt of this nation called South Sudanese years before the arrival of the West to the world’s powers.
So the IGAD family and the rest of the world including the UN Security Council want to joke with us because they think that we are just a small kid. A country born in 2011; but then is it true that we are a young nation? Have these people read the African Civilization which happened and that our forefathers were the masters at the time?
Our history goes back and far beyond the coming of the West and the IGAD regional bloc. As South Sudanese we have fought many wars for quite a long time in Africa since the coming of Arabs, against slavery and against colonization and we managed to defeat those wars successfully.
We are not a young nation ladies and gentlemen! You must be kidding us! We have been there and we must be cleverer than you think. So the world should not kid us. Crafting a bad peace document this time will not work. Our people know that the peace agreement that IGAD and the TROIKA want to bring is that which gives them space to continue working and stealing our resources in South Sudan.
If the UNSC wants to destroy South Sudan this time they must repair Libya first. In 2011 UNSC and the Obama’s administration were jealous of the Col. Gadaffi administration and strength and they incited violence in that country at the end, Col. Gadaffi was killed and the country remained in a total mess.
The west must bring peace and repair the political situation in Libya before destroying another African Nation. But we want peace that reads our style!!
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