The Warring South Sudanese Social Media Users Should Stop Their Cocks' Fight and Give Peace a chance
4 min readBy Deng Kiir Akok, Juba, South Sudan
August 25, 2016 (SSB) — It’s almost three years now since the war broke out in Juba on December 15, 2013 between the soldiers loyal to Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit, President of the republic of South Sudan and his former Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny.
The war started in Juba and moved to States. And to the saddest, it moved to social media that are operated in and outside the country. Most of these social media fighters are having their bases abroad. How the war is being successfully fought on social media? They fight in this useless way;
Nuer in Diaspora: ” You Dinka in Juba, we have finished your Mathiang Anyoor, now we are on our way for Juba so we could crush you with your president.”
Dinka in diaspora: ” Why did you run away in 2013 and on July, 2016 with your rebels leader, Dr. Riek Machar? You come and you will get us here in Juba, you will face us.”
Have you seen that? All these Nuer and Dinka in Diaspora are the one fighting this so-called social media war despite the last August peace agreement. They are fighting nonstop war. If one reason well here, one will find that these guys in diaspora are just inciting violence so as the citizens would confront each other.
If at all these social media fighters were having good minds, they would have used media to preach the peaceful coexistence of the tribes. But to the dismay of everyone, they use it to spread hatred for the tribes. While they are busy there in foreign countries earning dollars or whatever for their families.
Neither of them had finished Mathiang Anyoor or will defence Juba. What’s not good and the burning issue is that they use Juba as their battle grounds when the good number of them don’t know to locate Juba. Don’t export us your meaningless fighting that will only leave hatred for our tribes. The fighters don’t negotiate to settle their differences in social media.
This war is being fought outside the country though there’re fighters in Juba and in the states. But the war has its battle grounds in South Sudan. These fighters fear for the unknown to use their real names and instead they use faked names. Maybe they use fake names to make it difficult for the authorities in identifying them with their unethical contents they post on social media. Sometime, they called themselves freedom fighters. These fighters post bad contents on social media to destroy South Sudan.
They are wasting their time and energy to write useless contents on social media assuming they are fighting for the regime change. These fighters are just fighting cocks’ fights and will never move an inch for a feather laying on the ground let alone removing an elected president.
It would have been better if they have spent their time doing other necessary jobs rather than to write nonsenses. Unless these fighters are hired to do this job. If so, then they have no choice but to do this such useless job to earn their living.
But for them to fight well and get credit from their masters, they should use the right channels to get their thoughts straight to South Sudanese whether within or outside the country. There, they should consider putting their real names, city and the country they’re writing. Prove me right or wrong, if a man dies for a reason, then he should die with his real name on his forehead not on his backhead.
In conclusion, I have dedicated these below two paragraphs to social media fighters and warlords’ consumption.
Why do you want to fight for your freedom using wrong names? To my understanding, You don’t mean to fight for your freedom as you claim. Because you are fearing for your names not to be known by everyone that reads contents you post in every minute on social media. What if you succeeded in your fighting, will you change your names or not?
I wish I was the one hiring you to fight in your social media war, I wouldn’t give you even a coin for your job done. Because you are cowards and weak to fight this cocks’ fight since you withhold your real names while posting contents on social media.
The writer is a blogger with blog address https://dengkiirsouthsudan.blogspot.com. He can be reached at dengkiirsouthsudan@gmail.com or +211955664522
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Not every hero or liberator give their sacrifices for a mere personal recognition(trophy or rewards) as you seem to imply as should be the case. In every liberation struggle there are the unsung heroes that history never meets nor get acquainted with simply because they are either denied their due diligent recognition for one reason or the other(tribally motivated reasons for example) where a great numbers of Jaang are using the name of Dr.Machar as their main escape goat to tribally carry out ethnic cleansing and the few good Jaang are neither any match to this greater number of Jaang tribal extremists or have no voice all together to challenge these greater number of Jaang who are hell bend on the agenda of Jaang hegemony at all costs. All in all your entitled to your opinion. In my opinion you seems to discourage freedom of expression with attempts to discourage the nature and style or mannerism in which some chose to broadcast their take on issue at hands regarding South Sudan. As much there are no one South Sudanese bound by normal standards of ethic from politicians to children to military generals to foot soldiers and finally internet warriors are not any different either. For our politicians(Thugs) in Juba they chased Machar out of Juba and put out an order to bring Machar dead or alive and turn around and claim that they are peaceful partners to the agreement that Machar is also a party to. They went further with saucy statement that they want Machar to denounced violence the same Dr. Machar that they just days ago chased out of Juba violently or in a classic case of an attempted murder. Why you the lame writer chose to pick a fight with internet warriors leaving the exemplary so called Juba officials(thugs in suits) that you are probably dinning with right now is of course beyond me. My personal opinion if I must express without you throwing a fit ..is that you are rather a shameless and a unforgivable hypocrite as you might have realized in my brief comment response to your dried up piece of writing.