PaanLuel Wël Media Ltd – South Sudan
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.
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The trouble stems from treating an individual’s right to choose among alternatives as the right to determine the relative ordering of these alternative within a public ordering. A more appropriate view of individual right is a follows by the goverment through publics opinion. Individual right are co-possible; each person may exercise his right as he’s country. Within constraints of these right fixed a choice may be made by the citizens choice base upon a public ordering; if there are any choice left to make right do not determine a public order but instead set the constrains within which a public opinion are made, by excluding certain alternatives, fixes others and so no.
Freedom is valuable for at least two different reason. First more freedom gives us more opportunity to pursue our objectives, those thing that we value. It helps, for example, in our ability to decide to live as we would like and to promote the end that we may want to advance. This aspect of freedom is concerned with our abilty to achieve what we value on matter what the proccess is through which that achievement come about. We may, second, we may attach important proccess of choice itself. We may, for example want to make sure that we are not being forced into state becaused conatrains imposed by military powers, it is neccessary to publics opinion to change government rule, or to changed possition. The distinction between the opportunity aspect amd the proccess aspect of freedom can be both signifficant and quite far reaching. I want to ask a question to mr president Kiir adoption policy, If you make yourself like a president of Ugaanda, we will kill you anytime we want. But does this give adequate evident to what we understanding by killed Isaiac Abraham Chan Awuol? We have only wether or not we end up in the state that we would choose to be in irrespective of wether or not there are other signifficant alternative that we could give you two option chance mr president of Southern Sudan, either to regim or to bring killers
i don’t think there is something wrong with our people of Bor the always there to help anybody that needed help in south Sudan but the will never be rabble , they not slave inside their heart like others communities but the word that someone that that Dinka will give an apology to Nuer that will never happened and if i was the person who make that mistake i wouldn’t give an apology. but please people talk to yourself before you say thing , because we should always be a appreciated for give a everybody a freedom ..
I think Bor needs more leaders to act quickly on something. I have been in South – Sudan 2012 and I have try to look for good things but non are delievery to people. This is a time for people to rethink and work hard for the nations.
Thank you Brother Nyong , and NyANG kuol, I,m appreciate your deliberated on issue regrades Our Bor premeditate forces that affect community and isolated Bor within Bor. late me disclose this to you what ‘s that mean of Bor islated within Bor, and apparently, there ‘re troups of people who have working on their finances goal for themselves and they do representate Bor on thier political objective. on other hand, they ‘re refused to attentd a community conference or follow up and check of imminent threat face peopel.social construction and forethough of Bor people is just went wrong because impirical reality are not be point in Bor. Murle, Marriage and states of mind all these are end our Bor.
South Sudan should know enough when we talking about our self here but realities will come in place one day ,so that we will be known by other communities . but know I don’t think that there is anybody who will ever agree on anything we do because its not war time any more .we don’t ask too much , we are looking for our right , we looking for a freedom infect otherwise we will never consider anybody who can come with a lie.
Dear All,
What a feared mood press conference? When it comes to sincere national discourse to put things right, therefore, 1991 must take it places on spot without reservations. What a scared political tactics that Wani Igga, Kuol Manyang, Dr. Riek Gai and and Daniel Awet Akot had been maneuvered to mislead South Sudan poor mass of worse is coming? These gentlemen would have known that people are well-informed about 1991 event along with its shortfalls and benefits. Using it today as political tool makes no logical senses, and that they are just making a fool out of themselves.
1991 is outdated case and that we are now in the era of transforming young nation from rebellion governing to stable stabilized nation where people must make governing decisions, and not a few power elites. They should have taken a fear out of this national discourse and placed it with political substances will lead our nation to peaceful futures.
If Dr. Riek Gai’s claims to have left the Torit faction because of individual personal security issue connected to killing of Dinka by Nasir faction, why those of John Kong Nyuon, James Hoth Mai, Koang Chuol Ranleay, and many Nuer officers in Torit Faction did not leave for the same reason? His he had special reason pertained to himself to be targeted alone by Dinka elites in Torit faction? The reasonable person must agree with me that, Dr. Riek Gai’s claims hold no water and that they are just libelous lies to please master to maintain his ministerial position in government. I am pity of dirty claims mastered by grown up people only to attain individual’s food security over sincere national discourse.
Nobody must back down from fundamental democratic causes because of the scare tactics of 1991 event. They would have known that not everybody has seen 1991 as evil deeds as they would think. I hate it the most when people are misplaced the facts with libelous lies in wishing to mislead and cover up the real issues are up for sincere national discussions.
Thanks,
Deng Liem
The Sources of South Sudan Problem
Going back through history could provide us with clear understanding on where the source of problem that lead to Dec 15, 2013 incident in Juba lie. There are several variables of mischiefs if compiled together can be discerned as the leading causes of the crisis our country is facing now. However, to make it short, the major factor that haunts our young nation currently result from incomplete and misguided Transitional Constitution where President was given absolute power to fire or dissolve parliament without parliament approval or vote. As we have witnessed in the past few months, the President was so blinded and so intoxicated with power by starting to ignore his own ‘Constitution’ he blessed. One of my Criminal Law professor back in 2010 told me that “if your country’s Constitution is not written inclusively and democratically, then your country will be in turmoil for many years to come.” Well, it seems true that the source of our problem come from disgruntled Transition Constitution which gives president too much power to do whatever he wants to do in term of running the country. If President Kiir, for example, had not been granted absolute power as was bestowed to him by Constitution, he would not have to fire his cabinet in the first place without parliament approval.
Another source of our country’s problem can be attributed to the oil especially oil money. There are many actors behind the scene who have different interests regarding how our oil can be exploited and controlled. First, Bashir is number one culprit whose objective is to destabilize South Sudan so that he can prove to the world that Southerners can’t and will not be able to govern themselves. By doing so, he threatens Kiir that he would shut down oil flow to the port/market if Kiir doesn’t concede issues that were not settled or completed between two Sudans. For example, he wants Kiir to stop supporting and abandon the people of Blue Nile, Nuba Mountains and Abyei. Also, he (Bashir) wants Kiir to concede the entire oilfields that lie within the South boundary and recant their claim to the South. Finally, he persuaded Kiir to take in or absorb his agents so that the so called ‘hardliners’ by Khartoum would be removed from the government so that no one will talk about the above mentioned issues. However, these hardliners as Khartoum inferred are those young men back in 80s left their parents and their schools to fight and liberate our country. Even if they (SPLM heroes) are thieves, corrupt as Kiir put it, they are the ones that give us our freedom and they deserve to enjoy their hard fought victory. I know we will come back together and forgive each other once more but I would advise our politicians that they have to make sure that the next Constitution doesn’t give president whoever he or she may be too much power as Kiir has or use to have.
thanks for all what you have deliberated, it has been worrying in the history of the movement SPLA/M) how many wars within from it formation there were challenges from the begining as who will lead? there was confict and was resolved by Nyoun Beny and Kuanyin and others based on Objectives and goal to be achieved. Dr Garang had everything why we want to fight Kartoum Gvt he lectured and( he was our secret box) there was no reason for conflict it was leadership hero took us all a long up to peace agreement 205. at this scenario there is confusion on the process to build our newly country to show the world we are not for war but good governance and development is another we kow, therefore constitution could have been put clearly from public opinion to balance the country norms, rules, and regulations to direct other politicians what to do and not to do, our hero put it right when he said we have refer the the leadership to the public of Sudan is people to choose their leader not by force.so things are mess up here,we lost patriotism, lack of political will, igorance to respect of the public opinion we want a leader who is integratic,acountable to the public with good political will ,torance and records.
South-Sudan is not a human being community because of the problems which force people to suffered again. We cannot afford to have a leaders who seek power through fighting and killing people who they will governce. This conflict will be forever and ever because when people divided themselves and fight against each others, you become enemy to one other and no trust is build between people. The power of Bor community which was help Garang achieve his goal will also help this people who are affected to rebuilded their lives.
The future is brilliant and you can experiences it now. Riek Machar is not qualified to be a leader because he killed innocent people. The leader make a sensible and pretty much on their own personal perspectives and he should be sounded futuristic to be a leader by not killing people. Junub which is South-Sudan specially Bor will really send this satan or this devil to hell for what he did because good leaders does not killed people to come to power. What Riek Machar did is horrible and his forces killed children,women and innocent peole from the church.
This is a very website which i have never get one time,it is now my pleasure to comments on it and i will be always keep in touch with you.
SOUTH SUDAN: GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING, NATIONAL UNITY AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION OR DISINTEGRATION?
By Professor David de Chand
“We, [the Dinka] are born to rule and not to be ruled”. “The Dinka are the Chosen People,” by whom and for what?” These statements deprived from the political ideology of the Dinka [Monyjiemg] similar to the Israelis and the Boers of South Africa. They are the basis of irredentism, racism and racialism and xenophobia of the Dinka tribesmen and power elite in South Sudan.
BACKGROUND OF THE ABORTED COUP d’état
“Genocide is… both the gravest and the greatest of the crimes against humanity” Alex Destexhe
On 15 December 2013, the Dinka dictator Slava Kiir Mayardit shocked the world by announcing that there was an attempted failed coup d’état in which Slava Kiir alleged that it was staged by the former VP Dr. Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon one of the most prominent and outstanding British educated Nuer Mechanical/Architectural Engineer, PC Management System and the former lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering/Architecture at his Alma Mata, The University of Khartoum, one of the best SPLM/A field commanders, articulate, talented, the best and the brightest or la crème de la crème with higher spirits vs. the mediocre minds that are often afraid of the higher spirits, one of the political and democratic leaders of our times, educator, politician, scientist, philosopher and fourteen (14) other senior members of the SPLM Political Bureau (PB) as the ruling party. Slava Kiir had a strategic plan to eliminate the well-rounded educated 14 leaders of the SPLM to avoid the 2015 democratic elections and fearful of the intentions of the former VP to run for the Office of the President of the Republic in Africa’s newest infantile pre-born and pre-failed state in South Sudan. The Dinka dictator wanted to rule for life and has become an absolutist anti-democratic change and the Dinka power elite stated it unequivocally loud and clear that “They [Dinka] are born to rule and not to be ruled”. They furter also asserted articulately in another fascinating statement that “They [Dinka] are the Chosen People” by whom and for what?- that remains a myth to be demythologized. The VP wanted the establishment of a multiparty democracy with representation, participation, inclusion of ethnic minorities, transparency and accountability, thus, fostering national unity, de-triblization, unity in diversity of the variety of culturally diverse, converging and diverging interests amongst the people of South Sudan in unity in diversity, unity of purpose and of equals in the country. Slava Kiir is not only an ethnocentric and a non-benevolence dictator, but a blood thirsts killer or the “minister of death” of the third kind equals only to President Yuri Museveni of Uganda that killed almost his entire political opponents in Uganda that was once called the “Pearl of Africa.” Slava Kiir Mayardit has been the first head of state and government in the African continent to have a private notorious Dinka Touich militia ill-trained, undisciplined, brute killers that could not speak any other languages except the Dinka Touich, the most notorious, stubborn, brute, uncivilized and uncouth Dinka militia in South Sudan known in Dinka language as Agetwang, Abut Bany and Malwal Anyuol commanded by the notorious killer and butcher Paul Malong Awan the former Governor of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazel State. On the nights of 16-17 December 2013, Slava Kiir gave stunned orders to his lieutenants to unleashed the so-called “dogs of war” or “The Dirty Dozen”- militia into the City of Juba to kill rampage the Nuer people in the streets and to move them out from house to house to go out to kill the Nuer children, women and men, students, doctors, civil servants and other professionals if they have been identified to be Nuer folks, to loot their properties and money, burned down to ashes their homes, including the home of the former VP Dr. Riek Machar. Were the civilians’ population were also the ones who staged the alleged coup d’état or was it because Dr. Machar’s negatively perceived and implicated as the ring leader of imaginary military coup d’état is of a Nuer nationality like them that made them to become part and parcel of the alleged and collectively punishment for the crime that they have not done, which they ought not to have done. Slava Kiir’s militia murdered in cold blood many Nuer people as the targeted group and most of them were innocent Nuer civilians’ population, families of the GOSS civil servants, including the SPLA forces and many of them were those repatriated form Sudan after the split. It was strategically, surgically planned and calculated pogrom, genocide similar to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and specifically collective punishment targeting the Nuer nationality because the accused- the former VP- is of a Nuer nationality or ethnicity. The thirteen (13) other accused of implication in the alleged foiled or aborted coup d’état comprised of different nationalities, including the Dinka negatively perceived to be anti-Slava Kiir Mayardit, the Nuer and the Shilluk (Tat) (Cholo) intelligentsia and professionals. Based on this precise narrative, one could imagine and conclude that it was all really hell break loose and lawlessness of the third kind because the Dinka dictator went all out berserk to collectively punish the Nuer people and their leaders. Moreover, the civilians’ population, university students, professors, lawyers, economists, medical doctors mostly Nuers who studied different professions abroad with in North America, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan and other parts of Europe and North America were all almost gunned down in their homes or in the workplace or on their way homes from work. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed Nuer people and other nationalities were forced to flee their homes because of fear of probably being killed by Slava Kiir’s militia ran to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Compound for safety and the militia followed them at the UNMISS Compound and managed to kill wherefore the UNMISS personnel could not provide protection because of its size, outnumbered and could neither control the militia nor provide the necessary protection to the victims of the perpetrated genocide in Juba town. They also introduced cannibalism to some people caught to food stuff in town Juba. Of course, the Dinka of Pan Malwal de Bongbar in Yirol, Lakes State, still practices cannibalism although no Dinka intellectuals and academics would want to expose to write and to talk about it in public. Although it is well-established fact its remains a taboo that cannibalism or human flesh eaters do still exist amongst the Dinka Community in South Sudan. To make the whole story short, what really transferred on the nights of 16-17 December 2013, up to this day has been and still is “Genocide” as defined in the UN Convention on Genocide in December 1948 perpetrated by the Dinka against the Nuer as the targeted group for destruction and/or extermination as a “final solution” in whole or in part similar to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi in Kigali, Rwanda perpetrated by the Hutus and in other parts of the world, including the advanced industrialized and civilized Europe with focus on the Balkans crisis and the extinction of the First Nation (the Red Indians) the Americas or in the New Hemisphere or the New World by the European Settlers and the Aborigines natives of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand by the European Settlers. Specifically, the term “Genocide” was coined in 1943 by the Jewish-Polish Lawyer Raphael Lemkin who combined the Greek word “Genus” (race/tribe) or in my Nuer culture known as Raan ke Rami mi raan) (race, person of person) and the tribe is also known as “Wiec” (tribe/state), with the Latin word “cide” (to kill) or in the Nuer language also known as “Nhak” (to kill). In December 1948, the UN Convention on Genocide was held, which came into effect in January 1951. In international law, genocide is understood to be the gravest and the greatest crimes against humanity and it is possible to commit it without realizing it. Of course, what transferred in South Sudan on the nights of 16 and 17 December 2013 was genocide pure and simple. Succinctly, for the purpose of this article on the current situation in South Sudan, I would like to say that it was a deliberate and willful strategized mass extermination against the Nuer folks in whole or in part as a targeted group of people, an attempt to destroy an entire group and wipe them out of existence. Based on my understanding and interpretation of international relations and international law, public administration and public policy, it has been obvious that it would not be difficult to assume or assert that all nation-states- developed, developing and underdeveloped- have been guilty of the crime of genocide or what the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Church called the “crime without a name” during the Second World War (1939-1945). The UK PM referred or inferred the whole guilt on Nazi Germany extermination of the Jews , Gypsies and the non-Aryans and the non-blue eyes people in Germany, but he excluded the British Genocide, war crime and crime against humanity in the German City of Dresden when the British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed and completely destroyed the City and its innocent German population of more than 10,000 overnight air raids and burnt down to ashes the City of Dresden and excluded the British and the European colonial powers colonial crimes against the African peoples in Afro-Arab and Black Africa. To illustrate only a few incidents, the Germans committed genocide in its former colony of German Southwest Africa [Namibia] in which the notorious Lt.-General Lothan van Trotha exterminated more than 700,000 Ovambu (Bushmen) in Northern Namibia (1904-1908 for having resisted German colonization and this was recorded as the first genocide in Africa in the 20th century. In the Anglo-Boer-Zulu War (1898-1901) in the Republic of South Africa many Zulu people were exterminated in violation of their basic fundamental human rights in the land of their birthrights. In Sudan, the British exterminated more than 20,000 Sudanese at the battle of Kerreri; in Southern Sudan, the British genocide the Nuer in the Anglo-Nuer War (1900-1930) and gassed them in large numbers in 1915-1920; in Kenya the UK committed mass killings against the Mau-Mau uprising because of anti-colonial sentiments against the British colonial rule in the 1950s-1960s. The French exterminated more than 2 million Algerians and today Algeria is known as the “land of a million martyrs”; the Belgians genocide in the Belgian Congo, the Portuguese, the Italians and the Boers in South Africa were no exceptions to the colonial crimes either. What the hell in the world that to-day Europeans lecture and give pap talks to Africans about human rights violations when they were the first to have violated such rights in Africa and the world at large. I think that Europe and North America should know that they have been morally guilty of the crime of genocide as the gravest and the greatest crimes against humanity and it is possible to commit it before realizing it. In brief, many European colonial powers exterminated Africans and there were no questions to be asked at all because they did not value African lives compared to Europeans. What a shameful and human right abuse that was in the contemporary history of European colonialism in Africa and saint elsewhere in the world. Reverting to the topic or to the ongoing genocide and war in South Sudan on the nights of 16 and 17 December 2013 up to the present, Slava Kiir committed and had been an accomplice to the crime of “Genocide” against the Nuer nation and its gallant people. The Nuer shall and will overcome Slava Kiir’s Genocide and there would be decisive, quick, surgical response into the Heartland of the Dinka in Bahr-el-Ghazel. Slava Kiir has not seen anything yet how the fighting Nuers would react to the events of the nights of 16 and 17 December 2013 and beyond. To bring this case closer to the attention of the Dinka dictator in Juba, I would be obliged to refer to Article II of the UN Convention on Genocide, which defines “Genocide” per se, as any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as”
1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing means intended to prevent births within the group; and
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
For the purpose of the events that transferred in South Sudan, Slava Kiir’s regime committed 1-5 points against the Nuer civilians’ population that had nothing to do with the alleged foiled or failed coup d’état comprehended and understood in the world to be a lie because there was no attempted coup d’état by the former VP Dr. Machar and his colleagues against the Kiir regime in Juba town. Based on Slava Kiir’s limited knowledge and comprehension of the world around him and his politico-environment, I do not believe for a dime that Slava Kiir’s really understands the gravity and the seriousness of genocide as the gravest and the greatest crimes against humanity that he committed before the international community and that could haunt him like in the case of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his VP William Ruto in the post-2007 Kenya’s democratic elections events that Slava Kiir could be charged with committing the gravest and the greatest crimes against humanity of murders, forcible transfer of population to the UNMISS Compound under duress, depopulation of the Nuer folks, rape, other inhumane acts, forced cannibalism and persecution…etc. Since I am not writing a legal indictment, I shall refrain from it until that time that I will have the opportunity to come face-to-face with the Dinka dictator Slava Kiir when he would be caught red handed in Juba town and would interrogate him on what he had done, which he ought not to have done against the Nuer nation, its gallant and industrious people. I think that Slava Kiir and many of his cronies, sycophants and henchmen have forgotten that without the Nuer commitment and the war efforts in the armed struggle, he could not have become the President of a country called South Sudan. Certainly, I do not blame him at all, but the American lobbyists led Roger P. Winter, John Prendergast, Dr. Suzan Rice, Ted Diangne, an Ethiopian émigré who became a CIA agent under the shadow or disguise of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and Frederick Peterson a Congressional Advisor in Washington, DC, who stolen the victory or the show from the Nuer fighters in a broad daylight and awarded it to the Dinka dictator the late John Garang de Mabior in a silver platter. Nevertheless, it is not too late, for the Nuer people because they shall and will take over power in South Sudan sooner rather than later and by any means necessary or we separate into two (2) nation-states or three (3) nations-states with each one fanning out for itself and God for all. This brief definition and explication is all about the background of the combined Latin and Greek word “Genocide” what it is and what it really means and a precise analysis of the term. The details are incorporated inside the article from the beginning to the end or the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the end.
SOUTH SUDAN: A FAILED STATE
To begin with and prior to the split, South Sudan was pre-conceived as a pre-born and a pre-failed state because it did not have a strategized national pivotal vision, model or the foundation or the foundation of the pillar of the bridge on which to build or construct the national democratic institutions, infrastructure, sustainable good governance, socioeconomic development and human resource development or the manpower planning and human resource development. The SPLM/A was weaker, inexperienced in the state management, administration and always a military outfit that failed to trained cadres for the construction of the fabric of the national interest to unify the people for the sake of unity in diversity and unity of purpose and of equals, the establishment of culturally diverse society based on the concept of what is known in the Nuer language “Kondial” or in the Dinka language “Wok ba ben” or in Kiswahili “Harmbee” -meaning “all together united and bind together” in the construction of the pillars of the state and the institutions based on non-ethnocentric ideals or what is universally termed as the establishment or construction of democracy in political conductive atmosphere and its true acknowledgement, recognizable and acceptable universal values, freedom, liberty, social justice, equality for all citizens before the law, equal opportunity, non-ethnocentric (tribal) or de-traibalized state, multiparty democracy vs. one-party rule or Stalinist’s state or a non-benevolence dictatorship under the conduit, construct and influence of destructive vs. constructive political ideology that was inherently ill-conceptualized retrospect to the Marxist-Leninist SPLM/A inception and continuous chauvinism, machismos, Marxism-Leninism, tyranny, totalitarianism, oligarchic, autocracy, cabal [agent provocateur], anarchists, authoritarian vs. a commonwealth and constitutional operating under an authoritative document [constitution] that set forth the system of fundamental laws and principles that determine the nature, functions and the limits of the government. Briefly, the people of South Sudanese did not enjoy any opportunity to live and work in a democratic state ever. They have got used all along from Abel Alier’s failed administration in the post-1972 Addis-Ababa Accord that granted the South a Local Autonomy or the 1972 Southern Regional Government Act to the one-man show, Marxism-Leninism and non-parliamentary democracy. Succinctly, when I expressed my free speech, political ideals consciously in a free spirit at the outset, I stated it unequivocally loud and clear before a large group of African journalists and audience of the like-minds in Kampala, Uganda, that South Sudan was a pre-born and pre-failed state even though I had qualified that statement as an academic and an expert in the field of governance and African affairs, I was bitterly rebuked and repudiated by my fellow Southerners who often accused me of having been a “collaborator” or became like a Jellabas or Arabized Muslim North or I had been bought or paid off with big money by Khartoum to speak out against South Sudan split pure and simple. Of course, I was not paid big money by anyone in Khartoum unlike some individuals that I knew who were after all paid big money under the negatively perceived concept of “get-rich-quick” or to suck out what anyone can get out of the Jellabas big tycoons, which is, of course, Harem in the sight of Kuoth [Allah] because that tantamount to corruption, looting of public purse or coffer for personal benefit, embezzlement, profiteering, self-glorification, self-aggrandizement and the Dialectic Materialism. I further emphasized that South Sudan has a highly qualified calibers and experienced professionals that could set up the institutions for sound democratic governance, but because they have been alienated and excluded in the process, many have opted to go to the Diaspora, thus, creating a serious universally recognized “brain drain” or the exit of the best and the brightest or la crème de la crème in Afro-Asia to the Western industrialized nation-states in search for better employment and lucrative socioeconomic opportunities. This was the whole gist of my constructive criticism of what I had envisioned and pre-conceived would happen and foretold about the future and the present of Africa’s newest pre-born and pre-failed state in South Sudan led by the Dinka dictator Slava Kiir Mayardit the then “minister of death” of the SPLM under the tutelage of the late John Garang and the blood sucker of many innocent Nuer folks lives, souls and spirits under the pretext of the alleged fabricated or engineered failed coup d’état by the former Vice President Dr. Riek Machar and the would-be future President of the Republic of South Sudan through popular democratic elections based on the secret ballot box by the people of South Sudan in the foreseeable future and/or the emerging Greater Upper Nile state that would soon declare its independence from South Sudan to become an independent, sovereign de jure state to protect its own sovereignty and territorial integrity from foreign and domestic enemies. When I speak of independence, everyone in South Sudan should critically thinks and pauses a bit about it seriousness because it is going to happen and nothing on this planet-Earth would prevent or obstruct it in any way or manner possible. Moreover, without the Greater Upper Nile, there would be no South Sudan. The deliberate and willful genocide committed as a “final solution” against the Nuer nation and its gallant people in Juba town on 15, 16 and17 December 2013 up to this day would be the basis of separation or the split similar to South Sudan split from the Mother country-Sudan- in 2011. I could not be more grateful that we have complied all the names of the dead in Juba town in “whole or in part” and our agents and informers have already continuously transmitting them to the data based at our end directly or indirectly for further compiling the dead until the whole work is completed. Actually, the events in Juba town against the Nuer folks by the ill-trained and undisciplined Slava Kiir’s militia (Agetwang, Adut Bany and Malwal Anyuiel) from Warrap and the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazel States was a real reminiscence of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide committed by the renegades Hutus’ against their fellow countrymen the Tutsi. The Dinka leaders have repeated baldly in a broad daylight this brutal, the gravest and the greatest crimes without a name (genocide), mass killings or genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide against one of the strongest, the bravest people and the ferocious fighters in South Sudan and Africa as a whole. The Nuer nation shall not and will not be defeated or weakened by the events that transferred on 15, 16 and 17 December 2013 in Juba town, but it would strengthen the spirit of the Nuer nation, its unity, its national interest and the national consciousness of its gallant people to be united against the enemy and to fight a good fight with all its might and so help us God. As one of the Nuer intellectuals, academics, diplomats, and statesmen, I urge and appeal for the unity of the Nuer people and the Nuer nation in this critical darkest hour of despair, confusion and uncertainty in our national history to confront this unfortunate aggression and adversary with courage and positive outlook of the ensuing political, military and economic aggression for physical extermination or annihilation in whole or in part against our people by the perpetrators of the Juba town Genocide on 15, 16 and 17 December 2013. If you are a Nuer and happened to be a true Nuer nationality at heart and get caught on the other side of the aisle or with Slava Kiir’s camp, you have already made a democratic choice rightly or wrongly it would be up to you to judge, which side you are really on. If you are not with us [Nuer] as a part of the Nuer nation, automatically you are against us [Nuer] or if you are not with us [Nuer], then, you are the real enemy and a terrorist pure and simple. Every Nuer who is not with his fellow Nuer in this darkest hour of our history is a traitor and would be treated as such at the end of this war and should know that he/she has been already predestined for ex-communication or alienation to become an outcast or an outsider of sort as if an alien or stranger within the Nuer Community (NC) that they betrayed because they failed to take the necessary actions in providing protection to the people of the Nuer Community or even protesting the deliberate and willful selected genocide, collective punishment and the targeting of the Nuer people for extermination like the Jews during the Second World War (1939-1945). Without the shadow of a doubt, genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Nuer were committed and any Nuers who did not do something to prevent the crime of genocide against his/her kin and kith because they have prostituted themselves to the Dinka dictator Slava Kiir because of the short terms positions in the government and the “Green papers” called the money, such Nuers would either be considered as accomplices to the crime without a name [Genocide]. What kind of Nuer leaders are they in the GOSS? How could they allow a government that they served and came to power because of their longest armed struggle as nationals allowed committing mass murder, genocide and ethnic cleansing in their presence? What kind of leaders are they? Shame, shame and shame on them all! I know that some of them have been collaborators and sycophants on this sad event against the Nuer people that occurred on 15, 16 and 17 December 2013 in Juba town up to the present. The world should know that what happened in Juba on the above dates mentioned, were not spontaneous reactions, but well calculated, strategized and surgical genocide by the Dinka power elite against the Nuer folks pure and simple. The simplest outcome of the events in Juba would be that South Sudan would disintegrate as a state in which each region would fan out for itself and God for all. As the Bible teaches us all that “The love of money is the greatest necessary evil,” but the Nuer nation is an institution that would continue to strive and thrive for posterity that has been, continued to be and would be transmitted from generation to the next. The Dinka seized the opportunity to kill the Nuer folks because they are envious of the Nuer oil and gas and they have known that they have failed in the leadership and would not have it again for forever. I would like to let my Dinka cousins know that the Nuer nation and its people survive what happened in Juba with strife and courage, but there would be a price tag to pay one way or the other. The Nuers would reach Warrap and Aweil and the same measures that the Dinka have done, which they ought not to have done, would be measure and done with same equal degree or surpass the same measures that they have done, which they ought to have done to the Nuer folks in Juba. I give the Dinka folks a decade of no peace, but continue war and bloodshed until the mission would be accomplished. They should forget about the Nuer oil revenue because the Nuer fighters would shut it down and to protect the oil and gas with their sweat and blood. We do not need the African Union troopers to enter into the Nuerland by no means. The Nuer nation and its people are united on this critical vital national issue and there would be neither retreat nor surrender. The fighting Nuers would fight a good fight against Slava Kiir’s cronies, thugs, crooks hoodlums and hooligans until they win the war against Slava Kiir’s aggression and it does not matter how long it takes, how much sacrifices the Nuers would make, how many lives would be lost in the battle fronts, I am optimist that the Nuer shall and will defeat Slava Kiir’s and his cronies in the battle fronts, nationally, regionally and internationally. The Nuers people have been historically patience and enduring species with great courage, patience, perseverance and no matter how difficult and tougher things and adversaries are; they have the courage, the political will, patience, perseverance and the guts and gusto to fight against this dehumanizing aggression with all their powers against the perpetrators until the end of time. Therefore, in my capacity as one of the Nuer leaders, I urge and appeal to the Nuer nation for a consolidated United Front among the All the Nuer nation Unity within South Sudan and in the Diaspora on the unity of purpose and of equal worldwide to consolidate solidarity amongst ourselves as Nuer folks and to unite our ranks and files to confront the events on 15, 16 and17 December 2013 up to now superimposed upon us and our people by the Dinka dictator Salva Kiir and Yuri Musseveni of Uganda to intervene in order to genocide the Nuer people in whole or in part in the land of their birthright. I urge and appeal to the Nuer in the Diaspora to make the necessary money contributions towards the war efforts for our guys on the frontline. We shall defeat those who perpetrated this aggression and genocide in due course of time and they do surely know the political and the military reality that they have created for themselves. If our forefathers resisted the British colonial rule for 30 years and were not defeated nor surrendered to the British suzerainty. The Nuer people shall not and will not surrender to Slava Kiir and his foreign friends who have become foes of the Nuer folks in South Sudan. We do know these foreign powers that urge and appeal to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe as well as the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of Darfur led by Jibril Ibrahim and Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) led by Malik Aggar against the Nuer nation along the southern Blue Nile State in the Republic of Sudan [ROS] and northeastern Upper Nile State in the Republic of South Sudan [ROSS]. The Nuers’ God would punish all its enemies and they [the Nuer folks] shall fight like hell for its very survival in South Sudan. Nevertheless, the statement I uttered was not intended or intimidated or insulting anyone at all, but I were telling the whole naked truth and the whole truth and so help me God. I further elaborated it that South Sudan was a pre-born and a pre-failed because given the current politico-military circumstances, its unity as a state and people remains in jeopardy and in big question or in a big terra incognita and in real political limbo. Cognizance of the acute socioeconomic underdevelopment, backwardness, tribal conflicts and foreign intervention in the domestic affairs of South Sudan, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and the savage military confrontation in this most backward infantile Africa’s newest pre-born and pre-failed in South Sudan as the 54th member state of the African Union (AU) and the 193rd member state of the United Nations organization, its future and the present as a state remains murky and questionable that would require further research as a failed state in Africa. The split in 2011 has become a political disaster rather than a boon for the chronic, the longest and the most forgotten armed struggle in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is now a greater likelihood that South Sudan would be dismembered into three mini-states comprised of Greater Equatoria, Greater Bahr-el-Ghazel and Greater Upper Nile regions. Alternatively, the South Sudan could disappear on the map altogether like Poland several times in Central Continental Europe altogether if the Greater Upper Nile region decided unanimously to seek for a political divorce to become independent with closed links with the Northern Sudan or Ethiopia in a form of a shared federal system or confederacy, Equatoria may wants to be annexed to Uganda and Bahr-el-Ghazel would decide where to go eventually at the end of the day. Before I could proceed ahead, I would be obliged to probe a few questions to all the readers from South Sudan like this “Can South Sudan survive without the potentially rich Greater Upper Nile region? Why Slava Kiir and his Dinka cronies did commit genocide against the Nuer folks in Juba? What have they done? Were they also involved in the coup d’état? What has the fabricated coup d’état has got to do with the civilians’ population? I do not need any rebuttals or answers because I have been one of the intellectuals that have already proposed at the outset that Greater Upper Nile would exit or split from South Sudan by any means necessary. The selective killings, collective punishment and the crime without a name against the Nuer civilians’ population has created a politically un-conducive atmosphere, mistrust and confidence building measures, parallelism and negated any conceivable peaceful and political settlement.
THE SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS: COUP D’’ETAT OR ETHHNOCENTRICISDM?
The current crisis in South Sudan surpasses the ongoing Ukraine crisis perpetrated by the US-European allied by orchestrating a military coup d’état against the democratically elected President of Ukraine that lured the Russian Federation (FD) intervention at behest of the 25-30 million Russians or 60% of 50-60 million Ukrainians in Crimea and the ethnic cleansing persecution of Muslim minority by the predominantly Catholic majority encouraged by the French military pretending to be the arbiter of all Central Africans regardless of race, ethnic, religion, gender and national origin in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR). The situation is fluked in South Sudan and could eventually escalate rather than to de-escalate it in the future and the present. The involvement of foreign forces, mercenaries or Soldiers of Fortune from the Uganda-Rwanda backed M-23 recently defeated in the mineral rich Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) by the Congolese Armed Forces could become a volatile and dangerous problem for the Horn of Africa and East Africa. The South Sudan crisis could easily overspill into Uganda and Kenya and beyond if it were not resolved sooner rather than later by the African Union and the IGAD mediators, the UN organization and the international community. However, it should be reckoned that it is neither going to be an easy task nor could it be left without making any attempts to resolving it either. Furthermore, the IGAD mediators should exceptionally and extremely become impartial in the search for peaceful and political conflict resolution in South Sudan. The genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the Nuer would make the situation harder to resolving because the genocide in Juba has created a socio-political extreme “mistrust” and confidence building measures. Specifically, IGAD member states that have already got involved on the side of the GOSS should be completely and totally excluded from partaking any roles in the conflict negotiations process because of converging and divergent interests in South-Sudan deepening cultural divides. Slava Kiir deliberate and willful murdered of innocent Nuer civilians’ population in Juba town would not go un-avenged and the conflict that’s has been termed to become a Nuer-Dinka War could take years to conclude and to heal the wounds inflicted. The two majority tribes or nationalities would remain parallel and that could make South Sudan to become ungovernable and would have continuous political instability without any legitimate government to reconcile the warring parties. Knowing the history of resistance well and the Nuer fighting abilities, the Dinka would lose at the end of the day and would suffer most because they are weaker, lazy and cowards of the cowards to fight and the current foreign involvement has been a clear indicative that the Dinka have neither the spirit, the will, the guts and gusto to fight and as a result, they resorted to hiring foreign mercenaries and Soldiers of Fortune with money from the public purse or coffer. The Dinka dictator Slava Kiir miscalculated the situation by involving foreign mercenaries as a way of exterminating the Nuer people as a “final solution” against the Nuer question in South Sudan. I think that the Nuer people have already proven beyond a reasonable doubt to the world and Africa once again retrospect to the Anglo-Nuer War in the 1900s-1930s in which the British colonial government committed colonial crimes against humanity, including the gassing with the mustard gas and other form of biochemical (1915-1920) and the bombardments by the Royal Air Force (RAF) against the Nuer nation pure and simple. Without the shadow of a doubt, the Nuer would once again overcome the perpetrated assault and aggression against it by Slava Kiir and Yuri Museveni, including the mercenaries, Soldiers of Fortune, JEM of Gibril Ibrahim as the SPLA dogs of war and the renegades. I would like heretofore be obliged to make some reflections on the simmering political, tribal and military crisis in South Sudan and its present and the future catastrophic consequences. These reflections are excerpts of the previous articles that I authored in the past plus now the forthcoming book would create further uproars between me and the SPLM leadership with particular emphasis, on Pagan Amoum, Deng Alore (alas Ahmed Alore), including others of the so-called Garang’s Boys or the so-called Nyandeng Orphans as well as the Dinka dictator tall likes a palm tree with a horses brain and the big Gallon Cowboy hat on his empty head given him by the former US President George Bush,Jr. on range in the Lone State, Texas, USA, on the future and the present of South Sudan prior to the split from the Mother country- Sudan on 9 July 2011.
SOUTH SUDAN A PRE-BORN AND A PRE-FAILED STATE
It is not kidding to assume that South Sudan has become a pre-born and a pre-failed state. This assumption has become a political reality as we shall illustrate in the forthcoming paragraphs. What I will jot down heretofore do not in any way reflect, insult or belittled anyone in any manners, but the political reality cognizance of the politico-military circumstances in South Sudan that has put a heavy dark cloud hovering over it. It would require everyone effort to clear the air for reconciliation, trust and confidence building measures because failure to attain the said above-mentioned, all hell could break loose throughout South Sudan before the heavy rainy season and beyond. Firstly, when I authored the article in which I sincerely argued that South Sudan was a pre-born and a pre-failed state in Africa and made recommendations or suggestions that the referendum should have been delayed and/or extended for another decade or so for Southerners to grasp the concept of government, the meaning of the state building process, sustainable governance, accommodation of the variant converging and diverging interests within the state because any deception, manipulation, maneuvering and marginalization of any sectors or groups or national minorities in the political and economic processes could tantamount to a call for disaster, national disunity, national disintegration as well as the chaotic strategic socioeconomic planning and the national economy, the vital national security interests and the human resource development or manpower planning and the erection of factories for the production of the basic rudimentary household needs in South Sudan. Africa’s infantile state does not even have the capacity to manufacture the simplest needle to sow clothes and the soap for washing clothes and everything from the needle to soap and other basic commodities had to be imported either from the North or from the expired Kenya and Uganda food staff re-boxed in new boxes destined for South Sudan. When I published the article about South Sudan being like an infant child learning how to crawl, I was rebuked, repudiated and termed by the credits as a ‘mad professor’ because of their lack of vision, strategic knowledge, the politico-historical calculations, social sciences research methods, interpolations and critical analysis of sequential events, logical, epistemological, scientific and the moral philosophical as well as the theoretical framework, judgment, reasoning and reasonableness. It was further alleged that I was anti-South Sudan independent, sovereignty and territorial integrity. What a joke and childish that was! What moral justification, evident and scientific, epistemological reasoning and reasonableness could they provide? In South Sudan, people give general judgment without the scientific proof and this has been one of the unfortunate labeling and negative perceptions of people with scientific like-minds. Nevertheless, any jackasses or idiots in South Sudan should read history of the armed struggle and would be shocked to discover the roles that I have played in the armed struggle and in the search for peaceful and political conflict resolution. Most importantly, my critic should hereon know that I had been exposed to strategic studies, training and have the scientific and logical reasoning to grasp issues and to envisage solutions to such issues intellectually, politically, legally and philosophically. For the critics that have been envious of my achievements and that I have been a league of my own, they do not have to worry at all because I would not ignore them as fellow human beings. Generally, I am humble, easy going gentleman, approachable, fearless and ready to Dialogue with anyone keenly to listen, to learn, to grow and to change to accommodate their opinions and ideas. They [South Sudanese] have morally failed to understand or to capture my art of reasoning and reasonableness. This problem has not been Professor de Chand’s problem alone in the developing and underdeveloped world, but it has been a worldwide phenomenon that tantamount to anti-intellectuals, the best and the brightest or la crème de la crème and against men and women of like-minds. Nevertheless, the problem that I have discovered from South Sudanese has been that they lack senses of appreciation and do not like being told the truth as it is because it hurts and makes everyone free to have a free conscious, thinking and neo-thinking to be told the truth because it is bitter and it hurts, unfortunately. As an academic, diplomat and one of the former Senior National Experts in the Presidency of the Republic (2009-2011) prior to the split of Southern Sudan from the Mother country on 9 July 2011. I have acquired tremendous experience in government and diplomacy apart from being an academic. I was also involved in the armed struggle as youngster and in the search for peaceful and political conflict resolution in Sudan and Southern Sudan in particular, for over a decade through the IGAD mediation process, including other international forums and engagements. In 1994, I was one of the framers of the Six-Points Declaration of Principles (DOPs) that became the basis of peaceful and political conflict resolution in the North-South conflict and Southern Sudan in particular. I was also one of the architects of the 1996 Political Charter that was a prelude to the defunct 1997 Khartoum Peace Agreement (KPA) that ensured the exercise of the right of self-determination by the people of Southern Sudan and written articles plus the forthcoming book on the subject in question. Although I had qualified the statement that Southern Sudan was a pre-born and a pre-failed state, it was not duly because there were no highly qualified and experienced developed men and women of the like-minds, but that they have been alienated, marginalized and completely excluded from the present political lime lights in South Sudan. Slava Kiir is anti-intellectuals and wanted to waste them all if he were to have the least or the slightest chance of opportunity. Actually, Slava Kiir had a schematic plan and the opportunity to murder all the 14 detainees, including Dr. Machar, the former VP and the Deputy Chairman of the SPLM in cold blood as one of the Nuers best and the brightest and/or la crème de la crème in government and public service in the SPLM party on 14, 15, 16 and 17 December 2013. He (Slava Kiir) should not have insulted well-educated leaders like Dr. Riek Machar and all the detainees as if they were his devoted servants, houseboys or slaves in his plantation. They have been well informed men and women of a league of their own and respected worldwide as professionals in various fields of human endeavors. These highly well-educated like-minds power elite and experienced individuals have been the best and brightest or la crème de la crème of South Sudan were deliberately and willfully excluded from the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan up to the aftermath of the split in 2011 up to present. Actually, the denial of representation and participation of these talented intellectuals, technocrats, professionals and practitioners in the formation of the GOSS produced a gravely adverse impact and the lowest moral judgment and vision in the establishment of democratic institutions throughout South Sudan. Secondly, when I authored the second article focusing on the rampant rapid corruption, embezzlements for self-aggrandizement, self-glorification, dialectic materialism, nepotism, tribalism, favoritism and patronage by all the power elite in the government in Juba town, I was repudiated and constantly criticized destructively rather constructively by personalities that were not even of my caliber or social class, statute and national standard in South Sudan and in the world. Some of these lowly developed minds went as far as denying corruption and labeled me as a crazy professor. Nevertheless, before long and before I know it, my critical and scientific analysis on the rampant corruption became political and logical realities and all critics became numbed or insensitive and disappeared from into the blue. To make the whole story short, the critics conceded with my scientific and moral arguments and philosophical observations as a visionary model reasoned and written by a well-educated Southerner intellectual and an academic expert on African affairs. There was nothing, of course, that South Sudanese should be ashamed of because it is obviously that corruption an epidemic social disease that has no cure in Africa and the most backward region in Africa like South Sudan that has ranked to Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda in corruption and all negatively perceived “isms” and the likes at this juncture. In fact, my writing on corruption in South Sudan did look like I had pinched or administered a poison to everyone that was involved in the process because it was bitter sweet to chew, swallow and to digest it. Corruption has reached the highest critical crescendo, maximum capacity or its highest pinnacle in South Sudan in so short a period of time and everyone from the top down and/or bottom up or horizontally had done it from the President Slava Kiir down to all the junior officials and the movers and checkers or the big guns in Juba were not immune at all in the looting of public purse or coffer. President Slava Kiir has been the main culprit that has accumulated billions of dollars in foreign banks, including a big mansion purchased with the sum amount of more than US$50m in Adelaide, Australia, and remits to his children the sum amount of US$3.5 m in Australia when most children have no food on the table, clean drinking waters and good medical care and medical insurance, schools and descent housing in South Sudan. In addition, the Dinka dictator amassed other properties in Kenya, Uganda and Khartoum respectively. Specifically, when I authored this article on corruption it was only intended to enlightening the world and to bring out to light the impact of corruption and how to eradicate it although its existence was well-known prior to the appearance of the said article, but nobody had the political will, the guts and gusto amongst the foreign donor countries, the NGOs, the USAID officials and the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), including Southern Sudanese alike that were all handicapped by political circumstances to touch this sensitive topical issue that could possibly figure triggers them to jail or imprisonment, fines or both on anyone that was caught by the GOSS notorious Gumuti in the Nuer language (Gestapo/spies or secret agents) or the security men that watch keenly and make it a taboo for anyone who writes, talks or utters anything about corruption in government and public service in the higher echelons and public places were arrested and charged with highest treason against the state and considered to have committed the highest crimes against the state. Anyway, once my article on corruption was published and circulated and read by so many in the country and abroad, I fell that was morally and mentally liberated because my political ideas and viewpoints have been exposed and penetrated deeper into the minds, souls and spirits of men and women of like-minds on rampant corruption in Juba town. Foreigners, basically Westerners and the Americans and the Norwegians and the European who have been pro-SPLM/A prior to the death of the late John Garang at the expense of other Southern Sudanese, became stunned, apprehensive, shocked and not surprised to reckon that a bloody thing was really going on pretty wrong in the GOSS in Juba town because the money donated tor start of rudimental infrastructure in the country, shown non-tangible results and could not be accounted for. Of course, they were actually asphyxiated with the SPLM/A as a moral institution with a hell of good intentions to accomplish good benefits, but not knowing that it was like sitting down or standing on a volcanic rock that could erupt with deadly volcanic ashes to kill unnoticeably. In a study that released by the international financial institutions, i.e., The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the USAID, South Sudan was ranked amongst the top list of the most corrupt countries like Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda in Sub-Saharan Africa. Succinctly, up to now though corruption remains to be the obstacle and the order of the day in South Sudan. A Commission on Corruption was commissioned to eradicate it, but it has been a joke because no persons have been caught and brought to trials and convicted in the court of law because of corruption in South Sudan. I guess, the Commission on Corruption remains in quandary, less effective and bluffing that something was being done about corruption when in reality there was nothing being done at all, and it has become a showcase rather than real political institution or entity to deal with this chronic, incurable and social disease that devours the resources (wealth) of South Sudan for personal ego, self-glorification, self-aggrandizement, embezzlement, patronage, favoritism, nepotism and Dialectic Materialism by the officials or the gentry in higher echelons or higher places. When I authored the third article on ethnocentrism (tribalism) in the GOSS, I was also condemned, rebuked and repudiated by the lunatics, idiots, the tribal chauvinist pigs and machismos that do not know or have full knowledge of the gravity and the impact on what ethnocentrism (tribalism) means and all about. It is an incurable social disease worldwide. In Europe and North America, for instance, it is diplomatically known differently, for instance, entrenched as racism and racialism and xenophobia, social discrimination like the current Islamophobia in many Western industrialized nations capitols, residential, streets and constant profiling against Muslims and Islam as a faith-based religion and labeled all Muslims to be negatively perceived as terrorists of sort as the followers of the Islamic faith, unfortunately. In Israel it is called Apartheid against the Arab Palestinians similar to the Boer apartheid against the African majority prior to the demise of apartheid and racist system in the Republic of South Africa in 1994. In the Arab world, likes in Africa it is Ghabaliyya and most businesses have been conducted on the basis of that principle and that concept in most Afro-Arab countries, including both the Old and the New Sudan states. The Dinka ongoing perpetrated Genocide against the Nuer civilians’ population in South Sudan by the Dinka dictator Slava Kiir was in everything and ways similar in whole or in part to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide perpetrated by the Hutus against the Tutsi in Kigali, Rwanda, before the United Nations Mission in Rwanda under the command of the Canadian Commandant Lt.- General Rome Dalais in Rwanda. Actually, the big powers knew about it and they could have prevented by doubling up the already stationed 2,500 UNMIR peacekeeping force in Kigali, Rwanda. Similarly, the superpowers know firsthand what is now happening inside South Sudan against the Nuer people that is potentially rich in the black gold (oil and gas) that has drastically changed the international geopolitics for decades and a small poor and resource less country like Uganda could prematurely intervene on its own without the foreign backers-mainly from the Western countries and the “seven sisters” or the oil consortia in the Western world and the international Corporatocracy, the Wall Streets banks and the Jews seeking to monopolize and to control everything and anything that they can put on their hands and their moneys that has become the root causes of all social evils, drug trafficking and the international crimes pure and simple. As I see it, there is no democracy to be exported to the developing and underdeveloped because the entire world has seen and experienced exploitation this concept like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and in the Central African Republic predominantly Catholics vs. Muslim minority and the Rhoingya Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar (Burma) as if the most persecuted and mass killings or genocide denial of the right of citizenship and deportation out of the land of their birthrights to nowhere and the international community ignored the gravity of the situation and gives it a blind eye because they wanted to protect their vital national interests in Myanmar’s (Burma) minerals contracts and the marketplace. The issue on tribalism has been serious, critical even though it was apparently fell by so many, it was also categorically denied by the semi-literate and the octogenarian Dinka power elite assigned to positions that they do neither deserved nor have the educational qualifications and work experience in public service even though this fact has been visible agenda to all observers in Juba town. In a nutshell, the under Slava Kiir’s autocratic and oligarchic rule or leadership, the Dinka tribesmen wanted to grasp and to monopolize what they do not deserve at gunpoint and there is no any nationality amongst the sixty (60) nationalities or so that has the guts and gusto and the political will to challenge and sucks it to the Dinka except the Nuer nationality that Dinka fears most like a rattle snake or the African Black Mamba and the King’s Cobra snakes and the Continental Europeans, including the British Isle have Germanophobia.
Specifically, when I authored the fourth article with focus and forecast on South-South War on ethnocentrism (tribalism) because of the lack or the absence thereof of concrete national vision or model to prevent the country from drifting or plunging into the death trap of becoming a pre-born and a pre-failed state, ethnocentrism, rampantly immoral corruption, nepotism, patronage, favoritism as opposed to merit and meritocracy as an immoral disease and unforgiving sin that has to be eradicated, that tribalism has also become the worse enemy of South Sudanese and eventually all of the said above-mentioned, could lead South Sudan state into a bloody civil war, I was also negatively and destructively criticized and rebuked by my very own blood that has become a selectively targeted for annihilation or extermination by the wicked, the most inhumane, satanic cult, uncivilized and cannibal-likes Dinka tribesmen that such a thing could not happen. Now, it has happened before their eyes and the international community, what is to be done about it? That is the question, to be or not be, and that is the question. To the best of my knowledge, it has happened and would surely take a long, long and a long time to quench, to conclude, to heal the wounds and it makes the future and the present of South undesirable to remain in a state of constant political disequilibrium. My critic has become stunned, absconded, fell ashamed and betrayed about the ongoing events beyond their control in South Sudan, unfortunately. I said it unequivocally loud and clear that if the current trends of political, military and tribal discord remains unresolved or uncorrected Africa’s newest and infantile state in South Sudan could possibly plunge into a bloody civil war, thus, leading to rapid national disintegration and to prevent or to deny any harmonious co-existence. I was also right because the bloody civil war is now raging on in South Sudan and will spread like bush fires in Africa and South Sudan in particular, and could absolutely displace or overthrow Slava Kiir from reigns of powers and transferring it to te Nuer people. This will surely happen because the Dinka cannot the defeat the Nuer in despite of Kiir-Museveni’s unholy alliance against the Nuer people. The interparty political dichotomy that was fueled and ignited the ongoing upheavals and war has been attributed consequently to the irresolvable internal contradictions within the SPLM Political Bureau (PB) as the ruling party in South Sudan. The Dinka dictator Slava Kiir should know and underscore that no nation-states on the planet could be built by one tribe, but its often required concerted efforts of all groups or tribes to be represented, it takes two to tango, equitable democratic representation and participation, transparency and accountability in the sociopolitical in the nation building process. The octogenarian Dinka power elite failed to adhere to advice the Dinka dictator about the concept of sound and sustainable governance and the need of accommodation of all various entities within the state and their converging and diverging interests in the management of the state as a public property or polity based on social contract or contract social in French rather than on complete and total absolutist ethnocentric (tribal) ethos, ethnocentricracy or tribal absolutism. This genocidal war started on 15, 16 and 17 December 2013 and goes on today and one knows how and when it will end, but only haven knows when it will come to an end. Realistically, as a political realist and a professional soldier, this war would consume many South Sudanese lives because are already deeply seated historic feuds and socio-animosities, anger on genocide specifically targeting the Nuer nationality town on the nights of 16 and 17 December 2013 respectively, and beyond in Juba town , which led to the death of hundred of thousands of innocent Nuer folks amongst those fighting this war, unfortunately. Frankly speaking, we should not kid ourselves that the war will end in a month, in a year, in two years, in three years, four years or five years, but it could possibly take longer period to end. Let us assume that supposedly, Slava Kiir steps down or not, it would not be easy for the Nuer fighter to stop killing the Dinka until there will give good and sound explication of raison d’être of wanton mass killings or genocide of children, women, the Nuer professionals, intellectuals, businessmen/women, doctors and engineers that the Dinka do not the replacement for them now or in the future and the present. I could not feel proud that all my political, sociological, philosophical and epistemological analyses, thinking and neo-thinking as well as analytical legal reasoning and reasonableness and critical thinking and neo-thinking have come to path or materialize at the end of the day. What the people really should do and critically think about now is the future and the present should be whether the South Sudan remains united, disintegrated or dismembered state. The future and the present of South Sudan as I see it, given the rapid prevailing politico-military events and circumstances that transferred in the last three months or so, does not need a rocket scientist to comprehend and understand that it remains in jeopardy, political limbo and dangerous trajectory path.
This article would high light and focus on the issue of unity in diversity or cultural diversity, unity of purpose and of equals, national disintegration or dismemberment and should further make several proposals for peaceful and political conflict resolution of the ongoing political and military contention in South Sudan. The Dinka power elite totally and completely failed South Sudan unity in diversity, its cultural diversity as if one united and indivisible state from Abel Alier to John Garang to Slava Kiir as a result, history would not absolve them at all. I think that the Dinka tribesmen have reached to their last pinnacle of power and money monopoly and should realize that they would have to be taught a wonderful listen that they would not forget because of their arrogant, stubbornness, negative sophistication, pride and prejudice and greed that Slava Kiir would mark the end of times and epic of the Dinka political leadership in South Sudan on the one hand and or South Sudan would disintegrate or t dismember into two, three, or four mini-nation-states, or to reunite with the mother country-Sudan or place it under the UN ECOSOC mandates of trusteeship for a period of 10-20 years under with the UN as the Administering Authority until its people learn the art of good and sustainable governance one way or the other. I will recommend or suggest different political solutions before the conclusion of this article. Perhaps, another issue of vital national interest would the future and the present of South Sudan at the end of this genocidal warfare and ethnic cleansing and the determination whether South Sudan would remain as one polity or state based on the principle of democracy and its true values, multiparty system, multicultural state to preserve its unity in diversity, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multiracial identity. Realistically, the future of South Sudan as if one unified state and invisible. Surely, if the AU and the UN failed to properly resolve the conflict in South Sudan, we could probably have another Ukraine crisis and the Crimea referendum on Sunday, 16 March 2014 16 to be re-united with Mother Russia since 1954 when Crimea was annexed to Ukraine by the former Soviet President Nikila Khrushchev in 1954 or there could be continuous crisis or creeping revolution and the absence or the lack thereof of political stability in Arica’s newest failed state in South Sudan. Succinctly, all the four articles were indicative that Africa’s newest state would collapse and to become a failed state that would be constant state of political instability, civil war, moves on to become stateless and to statelessness similar Somalia in the Horn of Africa. The question that is to be probed and that lingers over many South Sudanese like-minds would be about the future whether it would remain as if one united indivisible state, two states or three states? As I see it, the future and the present of South Sudan remains bleaks, murky, unpredictable or what is called in French ménage a trios (a household of three) remains in real jeopardy, political limbo and pretty much unpredictable. Nevertheless, it would be stated unequivocally abundantly loud and clear that everything remains at stake and all options for national disintegration remained the on the table like what is going on now in Ukraine and the forthcoming referendum in Scotland on 18 September 2014 for the exercise of the right of self-determination from the United Kingdom to become an independent and sovereign Kingdom as if it were prior to the Union with England in 1763. In the case of the Greater Upper Nile that is potentially the richest and the hub of the black gold (oil) that has totally and completely changed the international geopolitics in Sudan and South Sudan in particular, wherefore the Dinka dictator as well as the state sponsoring terrorism supported and sponsored by President Yuri Museveni of Uganda has lost controlled, the dream of an emerging new nation in the Greater Upper Nile region is on the rise at the horizon, the people and the fighters have been motivated to mob or to clear out all areas of the SPLA in northern Upper Nile (Latjor) and Unity (Liech) States first and then they would decide the formation of the would-be new state. There are also other options to be explored on the table, i.e., the establishment of a shared federal system similar to the United States of America (USA), the emergence of a Confederacy like in Switzerland, a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) like in the Russian Federation, Asymmetrical federalism or a nation with one door two windows system or any other amicable systems of other associational socio-political and economic arrangements within the framework and the frame of re
Amook!
Some Nuer are still Nuer of the olden days with their thinking ability even though they went to school, how could a intellectual person wasted his time writing nonsenses whole day without anything capturing attention to others. Calling for the state of Somalia nature in the S. Sudan is what is remained in the mind of those failures. Also, there are people who don’t admitted their mistake in the life, and for that matter they turned it around by teaming up with the law brokers, non patriotic people and enemies of the country.
Even if nothing compel you to lie, you still fabricated things, this devilish act have gone too far and I wander whether it had become genetic or something have gone wrong with your thinking. Processor Dechan why do you quote Rwanda genocide when your philosopher did the same thing here in 1991. cannibalism: No one in this world will accept your falsehood, History is a fruit of sincere struggle and commitment something that you and your Philosopher are not aware of, Riek will never never be in favorable side of history in this country even if you still branded him with all those values, he will remain as traitor of high degree, I believe in the strength of our Nuer brothers but that entity is spoiler.
The truth cann’t save at the moment in south sudan.
Please lets stop this things of Dinkas are born to rule and not to be ruled or the new Nuer state for the shake of South Sudan. Selfishness and arrogancy is not the way to go in this mordern world Dear South Sudanese. South Sudan belongs to all the ethnic groups living in the country. therefore, lets embrace peace instead of spliting or indroducing monachies. My appeal to the youth is that, lets not follow the footsteps of all those ill ideas of the elders who have enjoyed their times but planning to deprive the youth from their right of life.
My friends and god-est I thinks many of us are still talking about leadership instruction in south Sudan. And peoples of south Sudan ,we won’t look up so far to bring other and take over rule by fighting or talking about one community. This one show us there no one interest more to a real citizen of the republic of south Sudan. Took it off if you can talk about communities. There nothing that can determine us that you can bring peace to south Sudan.
Dear De Chant,
Next time you submit an article, try making sure it actually look like it was writen by a proffessor. This time round, you are rumbling erratically like a storm, and bombastically like a drunken person. That is not how proffessors write, try to be concise with your point; otherwise you won’t get any readers for your frivolous and whimsical articles.
Why is Ugandan artist bebe cool say to have thicken south sudanese in normal life concert.
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What is independence ,peoples of the republic of south Sudan ?.
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You may die before you see the nuer dreaming kingdom
South Sudanese citizen there’s something which confused me in our young nations is th country. Which have problem or people so called leader’s it’s. Has became the damping area in African-American that’s why there’s tremendous war how can we solve its?
regardless of this article, the guy is known as a abnormal so I am not wondering by saying all this
There is no were in the world a single country have two separate armies. I still don’t get if mr Riak Machar really wants peace he claims, one South Sudan can’t be ruled by two Chiefs of general staffs. Kiir has right to reject this senseless demand by SPLM IO leader
The peace delay will be counted on SPLM IO because their pending demands are baseless this time. The so called federalism shall subsequently be the interest of the public not greed individuals.
I think that IGAD with hidden agenda is the one delaying peace in RSS, they started changing agendas since May 2014 and came up with difficult proposals to be implemented so that they recommend trusteeship of RSS to AU security and UN security councils, it obvious South Sudan needs solution of its problem to come from within if all agree on Democracy and rule of law.
Garang eka.
I am really to conclude that the so called professor David de Chand has got his PhD in tribalism, incitement, warmongering and clanism. He is a traitor and a crazy professor.
we have no culture of ripe ,in south sudanese as few of offensive in the society due to lack of understand of ripe .
Keep doing what you di
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professor chand graduate from school of tribalism and claism guys let him take but the truth is dinka is only in south sudan not like the other tribes who have one leg here and other there example him his mother is from Gamblela in Ethiopia
There’s no country where people live in tribal line. South Sudan is very big for a tribe, it’s less crucial if some people’s perceptions are pretty bad in describing some tribes rather than individual as professor uchan put it. There’s no one that put it to be leader for life. Those perception, poor communication, misinterpretation and alternations of positives to negatives because of one’s interests couldn’t prosper us.
Dear South Sudanese,
South Sudan will decides in 2018 who will be the President of South Sudan. Let me my people know the right people who have capacities to lead South Sudan into next level.
Let us hope for the best,
Ter manyang Gatwech, an administrator.
For the truth of the matter, we Dinka Bor; we have two major problems; a) we fear the government and put it first as major tool for defending the civilians.b) we are very active in talking and action is less.c) we value ours positions in the government very well than the lives of our community, and if ones died then body transported to the community whom he wasn’t serving. What I request from Bor community is to apply that theory of ” tit for tat” in order to defend our people regardless of qualification you are. Let take life example of lates Mach AChiek and Akech Makuei who came from US and sacrificed their lives for the sake of defending people.
hi the panluel wel members I greet you all, am delighted to be on this website and God be with you all.
people of South Sudan are dancing within thier legs God knows who will rescued them from misery dancers.
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Am tried of Dinka Bor and they though all south Sudan issue need their probable nonsense.If I want to be president are you the one who can vote for me and become the president without the help of the other tribes nonsense. Riek can be president without the help of Dinka Bor and let leave all those nonsense we need peace and we are the one to make south Sudan a better place where every citizen will be known by his nationality not of his tribes and I don,t support those fail leaders who try to divided us and Nhialic a diit a reed e junub e pan dan.
let,s forget of is happening and pray to god to fulfill our hearts with.
I hope they won’t make that the same mistake of 2005 again. I mean the formation of South Sudan men in uniform. This time, it should be done either by the ratios of each tribe population ratio in relation to South Sudan population, or in accordance to each state population ratio. This is because people in power usually resort to fighting, to rebel or not to understand each other, when any of them know they have lion share in the national armies, policemen, guards and so on. I don’t think that they will integrate the whole rebel one tribe’s armies, nor will they keep the whole government armies without accommodating the rebels. Each tribe of the 64 tribes in South Sudan shall have its share in the army, police, and so forth.
By God, this year 2016 will be a blessed year, if this party SPLM/A keeps to its word without dishonouring the August Agreement the same party signed in 2015 between itself. Without the SPLM/A fighting itself, then the South Sudanese can be in peace and can begin to plan for developing schemes and projects in order to get prosperous and southerners can begin to feel the air of independence. We have got enough of the bitterness of war, so now is the time to change from wars to PEACE and HARMONY. Let us stop ethnocentricity, since we are one people of South Sudan, no one is better or warrior than the other. We had all fought together the wars from Anya -Nya one through Anya -Nya Two to SPLA/M and Independent of South Sudan through Referendum.
Finally, don’t forget me when you are filling your ministerial portfolios. Thank you.
Daniel Ajang Yuot.
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Am happy to expressed my opinion as a south Sudanese citizen.
The problem of some south Sudanese national is. They view south Sudan as a tribe instate of a nation. Hatred, selfishness, greediness, corrupt brain and lack of analytical thinking had drive our country to this level.
God know who have right from two leaders but those who support the death of Nuer, God will judge those people.
let pray for the South Sudan people those who are suffering between two (2) leaders. The suffering that have no end why? and who will be responsible for it. No body can accepted it and it is become blaming games. we should stop blaming one an other.
Resolve all the outstanding issues. For quite sometimes, I refused to acknowledge that South Sudan is in a chaotic state due to an extreme leadership failure. However, events appear to have proven me wrong. From the onset of the conflict in 2013, I thought the outbreak of war was an accident, and that leaders were going to act quickly to bring the situation under control and restore sanity. Contrary to my believe, several agreements had been brokered, but non had been successfully implemented. This is a clear demonstration of absolute leadership failure, both on the government and opposition sides. It has been proven beyond doubts that none of the chief parties in the conflict in South Sudan cares about the sufferings of the people of South Sudan. Hence, it is time that a gear is shift in a different direction in order to save the country from further deterioration.
I never heard of a prophet sent by God to PRAY for people. When a Prophet is sent, Almighty God usually send him/her with very clear message to tell to people or a person. But, the recent message or prayers of Senior Prophet T.B Joshua contains some doubts. It looks like there is an agreement between senior prophet T.B Joshua and somebody within the government of South Sudan who instructed him to come and said that doubted prophecy.
The reality in this prophecy is that our government didn’t come into agreement with SPLA/M-IO or Riek’s people. Riek wants to delay the formation of government till his requirements are met, while President Kiir Mayardit wants the government to be formed even without Riek. Though they had agreed in extending the period for 100 days; still President Kiir wants to form the government. Therefore, for the unagreed formation of the government to take place before 100 days elapsed, there must be an extraordinary thing to help its happen. Therefore some situation was created to falsely involve God to be a scape goat for that unagreed urgent formation of the government either without Riek Machaar or including him. So, the Senior Prophet T.B Joshua seems to had been sent by someone in South Sudan rather than by God. T.B Joshua was instructed about what to say and invited to come to South Sudan for that mission. Just wait and see, if the American government don’t take an actions against South Sudan, then T.B Joshua prophecy will be zero. The failure of both Kiir and Riek to form the govern on 12/11 2019 did angered America; and South Sudan government knows that and is afraid of the actions America will take. Therefore they want to form the government urgently in violation of 100 days they agreed with Riek in order to please American government and to avoid any actions from Americans.
Secondly, there is seniority in the Heavenly Servants or prophets. Otherwise, we would had found that title given to most of the prophets in the Old Testament.
Thank you,,
Man of UT
The peace Must start with restructuring of the City. Current status of Juba City is an insult to the nation. the City is very dirty and full rubbish in every road and street of Juba? what is the ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment and Juba City Council doing about it?
A big shame to the nation!
South Sudan is Better not Being Independent, ask why at your own risky.
“Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
By Morris Kuol Yoll
The recent violence between Twic County and the Abyei Special Administration could be blamed on the policy deployed by the Abyei Special Administrator, Dr. Chol Deng Alak, and on Abyei politicians in general.
The deployment of war policies by Dr. Chol against Twic County, as well as his encouragement of Abyei Youth forces, Titbaai, to attack South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (the SSPDF), is controversial because it goes against the peaceful settlement of the conflict that he promised when he was appointed as a Chief Administrator.
When Dr. Chol Deng Alak was appointed the Abyei Special Administrator, he called for a peaceful settlement with Twic County. This caused many people to think he would be different from General Kuol Diem, who started the war with Twic County.
Many people from the Twic community, believing him to be a career diplomat, took him for real and thought he would work to bring a peaceful solution between Ngok Dinka of Abyei and Twic County.
Unfortunately, General Chol Deng gradually began to follow in the footsteps of General Kuol Deim, the architect of the war between Twic and Ngok. His deviation from pursuing a peaceful resolution of the conflict between Twic and Ngok could have resulted from the criticism he had received from Abyei’s politicians in general.
The architects of the so-called “Abyei Box” created a war between the two communities with their fictitious map. These politicians, including General Kuol Deim, a former Abyei Special Administrator, do not welcome a peaceful settlement of Ngok and Twic’s conflict without achieving their planned goal of land theft from Twic County.
Before the recommence of the current crisis in Abyei and Twic County, a voicemail recorded by South Sudan intelligence revealed General Kuol Deim’s criticism of Dr. Chol Deng Alak.
In the recorded voice message, General Kuol Deim disparaged Dr. Chol Deng Alak’s leadership by referring to him as an incompetent leader. In other words, Dr. Chol did not strongly follow Abyei politicians’ planned policy of claiming Twic’s lands annexed to the so-called “Abyei Box”.
With that criticism, and after a few months in office, General Chol allowed Abyei youth and its ally Nuer militias and Army from the Unity State to begin attacking Twic villages regularly.
Then, by September 2023, the Abyei Administration fighting forces changed tactics: Titbaai Militia and their ally forces from the Unity State started attacking the SSPDF barracks and killing government of South Sudan soldiers in various military locations, such as Majakkool, Mayen Jiech, Bombil, Akur, Aneet, etc.
However, the government of South Sudan and the SSPDF remained silent about the killing of its soldiers by the Titbaai militia, and Dr. Chol Deng Alak’s adoption of a policy of aggression with Twic County policy.
On November 9th, 2023, the Abyei Special Administrator appointed General Ayuel Kiir, Mayot Kuindik, and Duper Yak to his Abyei administration, which was a clear declaration of fighting with Twic County.
General Ayuel Kiir and Mayot Kuindik were responsible for igniting communal fighting between Ngok and Twic County on February 9th, 2022. Mayot and Ayuel conducted a survey of the Aneet areas, which resulted in fighting in 2022, which continues to the present day. Ayuel Kiir’s involvement in the conflict between Ngok and Twic County led to his arrest and detention in Juba. He was later released with no accountability.
Yet, Dr. Chol Deng Alak appointed General Ayuel Kiir as a commissioner of Alal County in his Abyei Special Administration, on November 9, 2023, despite his involvement in the conflict. The appointment was a plan to continue the war he (Ayuel Kiir) started with Twic County; it was a provocation to Twic County in nature.
After Gen. Ayuel’s appointed commissioner of Alal County, the war campaign against Twic’s villages south of Kiir River and the SSPDF deployed in the buffer zones began again. The Abyei Youth Force renewed their call to occupy villages such as Athoony, Malual Aleu, Ayuok, Aneet, Akur, and Majangkool to occupy them as the Abyei administration territories.
Before coming to Aneet to set up his administration in Aneet, the Abyei Administration launched a series of attacks on Twic villages in the vicinity of Aneet. With this intention, the Abyei militia known as Titbaai started attacking the SSPDF barracks deployed in the buffer zones. Hence, on November 13, 2023, 32 military officers and their families were killed in Ayuok military garrison.
In addition, General Ayuel Kiir and Mayot Kuindik immediately organized the Abyei youth and came with them to the deserted town of Aneet to clean it up for resettlement and establishment of an administration in the area.
This was a move against the directives and decree from the President of South Sudan that stipulated the citizens of both Abyei and Twic County must leave the Aneet area until the conflict between the two communities is resolved. The directives from the President said that only the SSPDF forces were to live in the area to separate the two communities, but Ayuel Kiir ignored it and his plan resulted in the recent violence in Twic County and Abyei.
The question many people ask is why Dr. Chol Deng Alak, the Abyei Special Administrator, appointed General Ayuel Kiir and ignored the fact that Ayuel Kiir and Mayot were involved in the conflict between Ngok and Twic communities. Equally, why did the government of South Sudan allow Ayuel Kiir to be appointed as a commissioner in the Abyei Administration when the government security arrested and jailed him for his involvement in the Abyei-Twic conflict?
The appointment of Mr. Ayuel Kiir was a great blunder, and the government of South Sudan should revisit its decision and hold leaders who commit mistakes accountable.
From a point of view, the Abyei Administrator has given in to the pressure of Abyei’s politicians who crafted the so-called “Abyei Box” and the pressure of those who engineered the war between Twic and Ngok communities.
Dr. Chol wants to please those who subscribed to fighting with the Twic Community in quest of stealing land from Twic’s territory. The Abyei and Twic communities lived peacefully from their inception and encouraging fighting between once-friendly neighbor communities saved none of them dearly.
It is a commonly held belief that those who “live by the sword will perish by the sword”. It is time for both the Twic and Ngok communities to realize that war serves no one better than living in a peaceful coexistence.
The war that started nearly two years ago has claimed the lives of innocent people and damaged properties, and relationships on both sides. The war has understandably created animosity and hatred between Ngok and Twic communities. It will take time, resources, and leadership of good objectives to bring peace and heal the wounds.
However, Twic and Ngok, as people, should know they will always live as neighbors, and they have done that for centuries. Fighting between them or encouraging hostility between two communities will spare none of the community from blame or spare any of the community from the war consequences sustained in fighting one another.
It is time to embrace a peaceful solution to this conflict.
Morris Kuol Yoll is a South Sudanese Canadian who lives in Alberta, Canada. He could be reached at myoll2002@yahoo.com