Consequences of South Sudanese’s intransigence in resolving their internal conflict
5 min readBy Yach Atiop Yach, Juba, South Sudan
September 5, 2016 (SSB) — South Sudanese in their 64 tribes’ attitudes can best be described by being Intransigent. Our being stubborn has brought us all these troubles in crystal clear paths by small groups if not many that they will do away foreign interferences by any means of resistance. This is a big lie because we can’t match the world as it is what I call the “Big Show” to those who watch WWE entertainment. Those who knows Big Show will agree with me that we can’t resist the world because it is our Big Show.
But the post war elites of meticulous elements in our system never knew that they are in the 21st century and not in the Old Stone Age whereby our own mouths play serious trap to our sovereignty leave a lone the world being controlled by the real owners. We should warn ourselves not to further resist the hands that once fed us.
South Sudanese being stubborn are the root causes of our current mess whereby we have no rooms for “Forgiveness and no Recognition for the strengths of the betrayers. The chorological events of our stubbornness dated back to all the fiascos of how we missed to progress and slide back to dark days of us being confronted by the enemies we were supposed to face.
When some folks in the Sudanese Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) expressed their desires to lead the party were met with resistant because some of our heart said no to their aspirations, that you cannot over step me and finger pointing begins and old wound were being scratched again and they largely reopened in December 2013. Who and what causes it? Blamed on being intransigent.
After the fresh wounds seriously bleeding, the region and the world saw the need to heal these wounds and get back to prosperity, and called for expedite peace, it dragged on till this peace was imposed on the leaders after failing to provide compromised to themselves. What caused the delay in accepting the peace, it is being stubborn.
Moreover, after realizing that the economy was no more and South Sudan’s creditors have declined to offered help, there was a voice calling somewhere, what can we do to get money so that we refill our parched pockets?, the agreement came to effect, but big hurdles in the implementation due to facts that, we hold our stringent and rigid hearts to reforms.
Our stubbornness lead to the imposition of the 4000 troops, because we refused to heed the calls to reconcile our people due to divisions everywhere including the UNMISS PoCs, the IDPs are sharply divided as well in those shanty environs, don’t asked me where is your evidence, I have worked in the PoC close to a third year now as I gave them food every month, why, intransigence has played it role and it has been decentralized to every South Sudanese and it has becomes our trademarks.
The question is, have we not learned the lessons and consequences from being intransigent? The foreigners knows our weakness and they will continue to dominate our domestic affairs.
My advises to our leaders in both camps, is that let pretend to accept the 4000 troops so that they can leave so quickly by the end of their first mandate probably mid-December this year and if we continue to manifest the same way of life and teaching them our culture of being intransigent, they will continue to stay as long as there are antagonistic proponents of “No room for forgiveness in South Sudan” that has made us to be scroungers currently when we were the source of wealth.
Yach Atiop Yach is an Atlas Corps Alumni (USA) – Atlas Corps is an International Network of Nonprofit Leaders and Organizations, He holds Bachelor Degree of Business Administration (Accounting) from Kampala International University (KIU) – Uganda. You can reach him through his email, atiopy@gmail.com
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