President Mayardit: Re-evaluate your Amnesty! "Amnesty can not be forever." 04 May 2011
Political viewpoint By: Luk Kuth Dak (Gurtong)-As South Sudan continues to grapple with the worsening security crisis, it’s critically important for all to recognize the fact not everybody will be happy for our achievement of becoming an independent state – including some of our own. It’s also true that some people take kindness for weakness. Unfortunately the warlords have done exactly that to the generous amnesty extended to them by the Chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) & the President of the Government of Southern Sudan ( GoSS) 1st Lt. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit. Rightfully, the people of South Sudan aren’t the only people who have every reason to worry and to be apprehensive about the dramatic increase of violence, our friends, particularly in the Western world, have some legitimate concerns that if nothing is done in a hurry to end the security crisis in the region, it’s possible that South Sudan could turn into another Somalia. Such is a serious warning that ought be taken with absolute urgency against those who wish to turn our nation into Somalia. They must be dealt with and defeated as swiftly as possible. There is an eloquent saying that goes: “Once a traitor, always will be a traitor.” However, the central questions are: What is it about the word “traitor” the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) doesn’t understand? And why is it that there is no time-frame for the amnesty? We demand some answers. For decades now, those warlords have made an extraordinary luxurious living terrorizing and looting their own people, while fighting besides their masters in Khartoum. It’s unrealistic that anyone would expect the warlords to give it all up for a monthly salary from GoSS (which often comes late). After all most of them, if not all, have an army of wives and spoiled rotten children who are obviously used to the lavish life style that continues to pour in from the NCP regime. The question is: Do you think that they can just simply walk away from that Paradise? I don’t Clearly, no one wants war, especially those of us who haven’t fought one. Plato puts it best. He said: “Only the dead have seen the end of war”. However, there comes a time when enough really is enough. President Kiir, and yes the people of South Sudan, have been extremely patient with the warlord generals. But even patience itself has its course, and in this case, it’s growing thinner and thinner by the day. Therefore, we believe that now is the right time for the President to re-evaluate his amnesty policy offer, put a time-frame to it, and stick it out with those who do not want peace. In my humble judgment, that’s the only language the warlords seem to understand. Reading a couple of statements made by the NCP’s darlings, the so-called Gadeet and Athor, there’s no question on my mind that Khartoum really is firmly and heavily standing behind the warlord traitors. Worst of all, the ICC most wanted fugitive, Omer Al Basher, has said yesterday in South Kordofan that: “ Abyei will always be part and parcel of the North”. Does it get any crazier than that? You be the judge. Amnesty can not be forever. The author is a former anchorman at Juba Radio Posted in: Opinions -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
