The DIY Security Architecture Will Not Avert Tribal Massacres in South Sudan
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Malith Alier Deng, South Sudanese Australian Political Analyst and Cultural Critic
By Malith Alier, Kalgoorlie, Australia
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (PW) — It is with sad heart that over thirty innocent civilians were murdered in cold blood at Baidit Payam of Bor County. These blood chilling massacres have come to define the area since CPA interim period, 2005 – 2011.
What is mindboggling about this is that, the government that controls the independent territory seems to have no temerity and resolve to bring this lawlessness to final end.
Violence was what the SPLA was born of. It was violence the SPLA lived for. It is the violence the rebel army reaped from!
Martin Luther King or MLK once, said, “I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle.
But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”
Extracted from, Dare Not Linger, by Nelson Mandela and Mandla Langa
There are voices calling for some communities to defend themselves against violently marauding neighbouring communities. This kind of DIY security architecture will not produce desired results in short or long run.
The very reason why a country has a sovereign government is security, security and more security for the nation and all the way down to the subnation.
The MLK logic above may be broken down into two parts thus; violence as the last resort brings about momentary results like the independence of South Sudan from Sudan on the one hand.
On the other hand, the past violence never brought permanent peace or solved social problems for South Sudan. It instead created and abated new and complicated issues such as the tameless massacres as we witnessed in Jonglei or Lakes state.
If the liberators could not envisaged the destruction for all that violence would wrought on Sudan, they should have devised mitigating avenues once violence subsided – a massive cleaning up after themselves was one of those.
The author, Malith Alier, is a concerned South Sudanese Australian public intellectual and political commentator who can be reached via his email address: alierjokdeng@gmail.com
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