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BY YIEN LAM, JUN/09/2015, SSN; Since 2005, president Kiir has no logical ability to rule South Sudan. His inability has been the issue that’s feared the most by people in the Country. He has not been to the task in order to govern this great country. If he did, this war should have not been fought as we speak. Things could have been done politically as an expectation of many people in the country. Unfortunately, the booze came in with its own power in the mind of none other than nation’s president. This gradually became problematic in his decision making. As the result of the booze whose companies have been the only development seen in the Country, our nation South Sudan has been engulfed by war that should not at all be fought ever on the history of the mankind. There is no apparent reason for the nearly three years old country by then to be in the situation that it is now. People now became the opposition that tried their best to prevent this problem to occur. Despise the effort of mentioned individuals who thumped their chests for this nation, booze mixed with tribalism did not let that last. Now the country is in the mess that its leader does not know how to fix it. So now Kiir and booze are the contributing factors and continue to be the worst enemies of our country. Believe it or not, there is no other way to deal with them rather than unseat the man by we the people of South Sudan. This is the only solution for the South Sudanese to once again leave in peaceful environment. Keeping him in power as IGAD suggested will never be the solution of our country’s crises. It will not be so because when agreements are being made in Addis Ababa or wherever they may be done, Kiir and his best adviser, the booze, will destroy these deals when the dead-man-walking, Kiir, goes back to Juba. This is true and I think nobody ever will negate what I am saying because we witnessed many things that had been changed when the walking body went back to the city of Evil. Not only that, since the cessation of hostility signed on 23 January 2014, things were agreed on the venue of the peace talks in the presence of Makuey lueth and Nhial Deng. When they reached Juba, they themselves also changed the supposed language of peace to the language of war in the airport. As you may have known, Makuey lueth is really a son of lueth “lying” in Dinka language which means son of mendacious person as the meaning of lueth is. If that is so, why would the government choose an individual who in fact has a father whose name is exactly as such, to be on the government delegation that’s supposed to make peace? Are we really in our senses here? To me, the government does not mean any peace at all. If it does, a mendacious person as such cannot be information minister leave alone being delegated to the peace in the first place. Back to the point in this case, president Kiir was influenced by booze and started it off by killings Nuer. Many thoughts that Nuer deserved not to be killed by the regime because leader always thinks for the lives of his people. This was and still not the case in south Sudan as people may have thought. This president does not think and will never be so of others’ lives in south Sudan rather than his own booze. “We” the people of this great nation must not only think about this crisis. But must act as soon as possible for our own and the future of our children not somebody’s leadership that is already failed us terribly. The man will never think of anyone rather than his own beverages. Nuer were slaughtered in broad daylight in the nation’s capital due to inhumane thinking about goodness of the country than the booze. This should have not happened at all because the country’s leader put his people first and cannot kill his voters as we have witnessed in south Sudan. This only happens in the country that is being ruled by a boozing president who only thinks of his own kin and kith than the nation. If you are stable person, what would be the reason for you to think of killings the entire tribe in your mind? Would you be able to do that without influence of some kind in your mindset? Probably not in my view. There must be something wrong with such an individual as we all know Kiir has problem in his booze-saturated mind. In addition, not only the booze is an existential threat to our lives in South Sudan, Dinka Council of Elders has also become an organization that added the fuel into the fire. This group of Dinka Elders should think like any elder in the world. But here is not the case as many people may think of any old person to act devastatingly as such in the country that they call home. As we all know, any middle age persons cannot destroy his home as it has been the case in South Sudan. Old people always advise the youngsters with what may in fact be necessary for their future lives. In this case, however, I don’t know what it means to be Elder in this group. I would never say all Dinka Elders are behaving as such because I have been with good number of them that cannot even compare to this group of thugs ever. Most Dinka Elders behave like any elder around the world. But the Dinka Council of Elders as it is called, is the Main factor that is destroying our country now and will continue to be the case if we don’t evict this regime. Failing to do that, the agony of killings Y & Z will never be eased in our country, believe me for certain. Nonetheless, Booze and the Dinka Council of Elders did not stop short with killing only Nuer. Now their next target became Shilluk as we all know. They started it by killing General Bwogo Olieu on Wednesday April/1/2015 if you can recall. Believe it or not, this man and his two erroneous advisers, namely Booze and Dinka Council of Elders will not get us out of this mess that they help create. This is so because booze is taking a toll on the president while the supposed elders of the nation advice the president insincerely as we speak. Many people thought if you’re giving a title of elder, is a precious gift that should be used to say what should be good for anything in life. If that was the thinking of many, myself included, let us drop that thinking from today. This Council of Elders is a group of evil that is intended to not vilify certain people with in the country but the whole nation which is not the duty of care that they’re supposed to do. South Sudan will never be owned by neither Dinka nor any tribe in it. It is called south Sudan for all 64 tribes that live there. As matter of reality in this case, I sincercerely believe it is the perilous group that was selected purposely by the regime to destroy our Country. If that is so as I gave it a thought, we need to act swiftly and responsibly as rapidly as we can to rescue our country from it. Moreover, believe me though, the regime will not stop there as long as most people start to know their rights. There will be individuals from naïve tribes that may think they are out of this mess that may call it Nuer and Shilluk problem. Let me advice you brothers/sisters. Don’t fool yourselves. This is not a Nuer/Shilluk problem. It is indeed, South Sudan problem. When Nuer and Shilluk are not there, you will be there for the regime. Believe it or not, it is a reality in Kiir led government. Therefore, I urge everyone to think clearly on this problem if you are still foolishly being used by the regime. It will otherwise be better for you to run faster before the beast gets hold of you. This man is ruthless and he dispatches so many agents to get hold of whoever tries to oppose him. The power of the Booze and Dinka Council of Elders is paramount to all. Kiir has no plan to take the country forward. The only one that I know of is to kill more people by using his booze. That is it. Lastly, as I read the news about Kuol Manyang being the one delegated by the regime as attendee to the great lakes summit, I was not surprised at all. He should be the one that represents the south Sudan. Don’t ask me why because the reason is obvious. Your answer may well be Wani Igga. Is that right? If that will be so, should the lone guy as well as comedian be the ones in the Kiir’s South Sudan? Since Dr. Riek left Juba to the bush, there is no single egalitarian person in the country to do what everyone may be thinking of as Wani to represent the country as the vice president other than the man’s kin. Wani is the kith in this circle. But he is not trustworthy due to his flip flapping on the country’s issues. Even if kiir has stopped doing his usual job as the president, this group of kin will never ever give Igga the leadership of this country. Kuol and Malong must be the front runners in such a game. Not Wani Igga unless the Dinka Council of Elders disappear by accident. Finally, South Sudan will never be in peace with itself as long as its president is being advised by the booze and yhe Dinka Council of Elders. Booze and Dinka Council of Elders are encroaching too much in Kiir’s decision makings that is why our country is in turmoil. Therefore, we need to take charge of our country and say no to the Boozed president and Dinka Council of Elders by ousting him with all his allies and taking our country back. Otherwise, kiir and his sycophants will not hesitate killing more other than Nuer and Shilluk in the days to come if not months, trust me. South Sudan Oyee Opposition Oyeee Freedom fighters Oyeee The author is concerned South Sudanese that can be reached @ [email protected] << Older <http://www.southsudannation.com/mr-driuni-jakani-a-local-ngo-director-arrested-in-juba-over-mundri-incidence/> Newer >> <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-awaited-devils-in-details-of-igads-mediated-proposed-truce/> 15 Comments 1. Joana Adams June 9, 2015 at 11:09 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1140769> Yien Lam, Good and well researched article. The blood thirsty Kiir who became a president by accident has long been a disgrace to the people of South Sudan although he is inevitably a hero to some section of his kith and kins. He is not just a weak and incompetent alcoholic leader, he is also an immoral man and a womaniser who sexually molested a teenage church choir ester in Kator Cathedral and words had it that her parents were threatened and she got exiled to South Africa. In comparison, the Jieng council of elders have been a total disaster to the would be nation of South Sudan. Whereas the 63 tribes of South Sudan have sacrificed and liberated South Sudan in good faith to be enjoyed by all the 64 tribes, all along throughout the liberation struggle from 1955 to 2004, the Jieng council of evil operated clandestinely with a secret mission. Their mission was to impose Jieng dynasty upon the rest of the communities. There is no more hiding place, the double dealing of this wicked council has been exposed. The question to the rest of the 63 tribes should be, what do you do with an enemy that is not only a risk to your very existence, but to the future and prosperity of your children’s children? Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1140769#respond> - GatCharwearbol June 10, 2015 at 4:46 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1141431> Joana Adams, It is up to us, the 63 tribes to either succumb to Dinka’s hegemony or dislodge them from our hard earn freedom. Currently, Nuer tribe is the only one of the 63 tribes resisting this hegemony being imposed on us all. With foreign military help pouring in to fight alongside Salva Kiir and his Dinka council of Elders couple with lack of logistic, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Nuer to resist them alone. However, giving up is not in Nuer of yet. For instant, let us assume that Nuer tribe isn’t there, how do you see the future of South Sudan? To me, Dinka will just walk over the rest of the tribes with no problem. Nuer tribe is their pain in the next. I suggest we all look deeply into what to do to bring Dinka to the same level so we all see each other as South Sudanese. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1141431#respond> - Bol June 11, 2015 at 12:47 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1142282> Gat…bol, You making alliance with talkers, not doers….No matter how hard you try to sell it, they won’t buy it. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1142282#respond> - Joana Adams June 11, 2015 at 11:04 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1142675> Mr GatChan, Although I accept that the Nuer people had to respond militarily in the wake of the Dec2013, massacre, it will be fair to recognise the role of others in fighting the regime of Salva Kiir. For instance Gen Lado Gore escaped with Dr. Riek Machar and is till with him todate. Gen Lado Gore has since been joined by many prominent Equatorians such as Dr. Richard Mula, Hon Henry Lodwar, Gen Martin Kenyi and others for instance Dr. Peter Nyaba and recently Gen Olony. You have also had of the REMNASA and its recent activities in Mundri and presumably Maridi. There are some people within the SPLM -IO, who I understand are marginalising Equatorians in -SPLM-IO on the grounds that they have no forces on the ground. And ofcourse there are many others who believe that a war can only be fought with guns. I do not want to open a quarrel with you because I believe it will only benefit the enemy. As to your question what would happen to the future of the South Sudan, if the Nuers were not there is rather unfortunate because from the information we are getting, the leadership of both the SPLM – in government and SPLM-IO, do not want to give arms to Equatorians on their side. Remeber when Governor Wani Clement came out publicly about the discrimination of Equatorians in the SPLA. Why? Please do your own investigation on this. What I know is that it was Equatorians who started the liberation war in 1955 and were joined by people from Upper Nile and Baha elGhazal much later. I also know that the reasons why both the Dinka and Nuers are armed and instantly spark wars or rebellion is because during the interim period 2005-2011 and 2011-2013, the Dinka president and the then Nuer Vice President disproportionally absorbed their tribes men into the supposed national army the SPLA. You will ofcourse remember the rebellion, absorption and counter rebellions which characterised the failure of Kiir/Machar government which they admitted to in Arusha. In fact one can say that they unwittingly militarised even the civilian population to the extend that this will continue to pose security threats long after any peace agreement is reached. Now, you will appreciate that going into war is not like getting up and going to fetch a bucket of water from the river or going to herd cattle. You do need to have a vision,strategise and have resources. During the 21 years war, the SPLA was boosted by arms from Col Gaddafi of Libya and arms and other support from Col Mengisto of Ethiopia. The military successes of the SPLA in the late 80,s was entirely attributable to them. Today as you have mentioned the Jubà regime is being militarily supported by Uganda, boosted by SPLA- North. You would have heard from the media that Sudan is supporting the SPLM-IO, The sinister plot of the Dinka to control the South Sudan began during the regional government in the 70,s Consolidated by Garang for 21 years, and executed jointly by Kiir and the Jieng Council of elders during the last 10 years. Now it may appear to you that Equatorians are during nothing but I don’t think so brother GatChan…if it took the Jieng 43 years to plan how to wreck havoc, on the rest of us, don’t expect Equatoians to prepare for war over night. But I would add that, unlike the two tribes in question, since 1955, Equatorians have made fundamental mistake, which is to believe in nationalism where as the Dinka clearly put their tribe first. Lets hope the Nuer will not be tempted to do like wise. The future for South Sudan depends on changing tribal visions into a national vision where the country will be a home for all the 64 tribes. As long as some people think that they are the majority and must rule even when they clearly have neither the vision nor the competence, the future will be dark for a long time come. Equally, for the Nuer or any other tribe to follow the footstep of the Dinka will be futile. It seems a lot of learning needs to be done by all. Lets hope for the best. Joana Adams Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1142675#respond> 2. AGUMUT <http://Gmail> June 10, 2015 at 7:19 am <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1141056> Like a GAS. The so-called SPLM-IO is a joke,so this article is about 40 % Alcoholic and stinking. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1141056#respond> 3. Francis Mangok Angeir June 10, 2015 at 6:17 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1141524> Dear Yien Lam, I am independence minded and thinking as human who learn how to response to other human beings. I read your article and I appreciated your writing because you focused to people you are talking to like president and Dinka Council of Elders, but not every Dinka elders or any Dinka in South Sudan. We need to learn to think differently and that is who I am. When I read the way many South Sudanese intellectuals response and comments the articles here in this Southsudannation.com I feel caution and ask myself why many South Sudanese intellectuals response and comments very negatively. And because of that, I think it will be understandable if we learn how to differentiate between the government and tribes because there are parallelism in politic. In this government there are many people from 64 South Sudanese tribes are against President Kiir and many are supporting him. We need to be open-minded otherwise our being call intellectuals would be meaningless. Mr. Joana Adams says “Jieeng Council of Evil” that mean Mr. Adams is against the whole tribe including those who are against the government. As open-mined person, I would like South Sudanese intellectuals to think first before they comments because people will judge you according to your reasonable thinking. What you think as intellectual it will bring the change to the community and that is why you see the other communities are growing. You will never bring the change to your community through tribalism calling the whole tribe evil while there are many people within this tribe are against the government. We have been fighting with North Sudanese politicians for many years, they killed many Southern Sudanese innocents and politicians because we are African and they are Arab. Can we call Omar al-Bashir tribe evil because Omar killed many Southern Sudanese? The SPLA/M were fighting with government, but not tribe like what we are doing in South Sudan. Many of us are confusing and do not know what they are doing since independence. The whole country is suffering and many people are dying around the country including this evil tribe according to what you call them. In Bahr el Ghazal General Dau Aturjong and Brigadier General Khamis abdel are fighting there against government and they are from this evil tribe. Mabior Garang Mabior and Dhieu are also Dinka are they also evils? There is no evil tribe, but there are evil people in the world and that is what many of us should have to understand. I think many of you understand my logically argument because I am not against any individuals in South Sudan, but I am against those who do not know the different between the government and tribes. Government is the system that country or community governed, but tribe is a distinct people dependent on their land for their livelihood. This is what I think many of us should have to understand when we write to public or response to other writers. Thank you for your cooperation and God bless you all. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1141524#respond> 4. Eli June 11, 2015 at 4:32 am <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1141962> Fracis Mangok Angier; It is very unfortunate that the media is the best tool to defame and smear opponents, these tactics have being used for hundreds and thousands of years before you and I ever took our first breath, so we dont need to blame the reporters or journalists. There is a saying that goes; “do not shoot the messenger”. Instead let us look inside our own communities and pinpoint out the bad apples, isolate them and start to show the better side of us, obviously “there is no smoke without fire”, those who are concious and sensitive about media bursting will need to show the good parts of our societies hoping that one day in distant future positive messages will overcome the negatives. But as for now our tribes’ names have been thrown into dirty and muddy water, but what does a person who falls in muddy water do? The first thing is to look for clean water and wash off the mud. Unfortunately those few individuals you mentioned here are not enough to overturn the images created over the years during the struggles. It will take more than than those few individuals, in fact it takes the whole nation to change the history, just a reminder, when Riek rebelled the Nuers paid heavy price, same happened to Murle, Chollo, when Martin Kenyi joined SPLA IO the entire Ma’di villages was set ablaze, now what is happening in Mundri? And what has happened to the family members of Gen. Aturjong who were in Juba, we all remember how his brother was kidnapped, who knows his whereabouts now. Even to Mabior, do you think he still has siblings in Juba today? If any they must be going through hell in the hands of Kirr’s security agents. I also think whenever commenters mention the name Dinka, it refers to ideology of the majority as opposed to individuals like yourself and those good Dinkas. So brother take heart and do not allow your good judgements be conquered by the negatives but rather focus on doing the right things, “actions speak louder than words” and just remember, “good deeds goes very a long way” But I have to give credit where it’s due, the author has done an exceptional job on this article. Let us keep working for a better future and the day shall come when all this rumbling and bustling shall become history hopefully we might learn from our mistakes, ” when you fail once it is a lesson but when you fail twice it is stupidity”. Remember:”those who do not learn from history are doom to repeat their past mistakes” Cheers Eli wani Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1141962#respond> - Bentiu Ramaran <http://Southsudannation.com> June 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1145065> Eli, Understand that war is war. Always war include lose of human life, damages of property, and household livelihood destruction. If people fear of lose of human life and property, the regime will never change and those of kind of people will remain nothing, but followers and slaves who live under endless tortures. If South Sudanese care too much about losing their own lives, then they should had never declared war on Sudan government, which mistreat them. If someone is trying to destroy your own good livelihood, then why are you not doing the same thing to that person. The person who mistreat others wants others to have bad lives, while he or she wants to have a good lives. Why do you allow the person who mistreats you and threatening your life lives in a comfortable lives? Living in submission and surrendered will never free you and your entire life of sibling and sibling’s sibling from dictatorship and slavery. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1145065#respond> 5. Choromke Jas June 11, 2015 at 7:42 am <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1142087> Mr Editor, Why are you not publishing my comment? Any difficulty with M7? Regards. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1142087#respond> - info@southsudannation June 11, 2015 at 7:30 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1142481> Chromoke Jas, Thanks for your input, however, since I couldn’t access the original source of the photo, I am not able to publish the picture you are referring to. There is no other issue besides this aforementioned technicality and thanks. Editor Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1142481#respond> 6. Kondokoro June 12, 2015 at 12:49 am <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1142761> WAAAAA NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE ALL OF YOU IN THIS FORUM YOU REACH A LEVEL OF INSULTING YOUR PRESIDENT WHO IS GOING TO TRUST YOU EVEN IF RIAK BECOME PRESIDENT YOU STILL WILL CALL HIM A WOMANIZER WHO HAVE SEX WITH A NGO WORKER WHO CAME TO HELP HIS PEOPLE, KIIR IS THE BEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE AND YOU WILL SEE AFTER YOU ALL ARE JUST A DESTRUCTIVE FORCES WHO ARE THE AGENTS OF BLOOD THIRSTY HUNGRY POLITICIANS WHO WILL NEVER GET WHAT THEY FORCEFULLY WANT. GOOD LUCK WE ARE ON WAY TO DEFEAT YOU Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1142761#respond> 7. alex <http://google> June 12, 2015 at 4:58 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1143323> Group of confused people always do not know where is the right way and the right reasons. The war is about greed and the hyenas who are waiting ready meat killed by the lion. Without shame they will show a breave faces that they own the meat. Secondly illitracy is a deadly desease because the wise exploite the fools who did not have independent thinking. The current suffering is about power struggle those hungery dogs if they get what they want this war will stop in one week. The wolfs will even use the dirtiest political tools like tribalism to get to power while he know it is a dangeroius tool in mordern politics. Will south sudan be stable if one tribe is eliminated or singled to be a bad tribe? The answer is No and why did politicians insist to use the cheap wapon because they want a short cut. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1143323#respond> 8. Francis Mangok Angeir June 12, 2015 at 5:20 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1143338> Dear Eli Wani, St. Francis says, “Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” As South Sudanese I love to sow love into where there is hatred in South Sudanese hearts because I love to see them love one another as brothers and sisters. I do not want to see hatred in you because you are brothers and sisters who God created to live in South Sudan in Africa. I have always preach the peace and love just because I am against hatred and tribalism. As South Sudanese this is not the movement for killing one another over the leadership it is a time to develop your country. Allow orphans and widows children to learn and become the future generations for the new nation. I feel discourage when I see them struggling and fighting with lives in refugee camp. This is not a time for them to live without going to school like many other children around the world. Many of us fought for 21 years because of these children who are suffering in the camp. What is the gifts you people prepared for those who lost their lives because of this nation of South Sudan? I think the education, development, freedom and prosperity of their children who left behind would be the gifts for them. South Sudan is belonging to all of us even though there are many tribes paid the highest price than other, but it is because of the freedom of their brothers and sisters who are suffering in the hands of oppressors. During the war between South and North Sudan, Muonyjieeng and Nuer paid the highest prices in the war because of population, but this cannot allow them to harsh rule and oppress their minority brothers and sisters. You liberated your people to enjoy the fruits of your suffering, Dr. John Garang died without tasting the fruits of his long struggling because of us. Jesus Christ died without enjoying his organization and there are many because being liberator is very important and need you to consider and love those who you are suffering for. In order to avoid disagreement in leadership it needs people to be open-minded and because of that I think the Dinka Council of Elders should have to understand that they are not only elders to bring the peace in South Sudan. For peace to come it needs the organization of South Sudanese Council of Elders to sit together and discuss this ongoing crisis otherwise one tribe of council of elders would never bring the peace. Peace needs the collective of voices and that is what I think it will bring the peace to South Sudan. I am not against Dinka Council of Elders to talk about peace, but they need to involve their Tribes Council of Elders to share the peace negotiation. I love you all. Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1143338#respond> 9. Eli June 13, 2015 at 5:43 am <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1143756> Francis It is good that you mentioned about St. Francis of Asisi, whose humble background have captivated the whole good hearted peace lovers around the globe. Our issue in S Sudan is not religious issue as of now yet, and even if it is then you are preaching to the wrong crowd. Your quoting about Jesus Christ is a good thing but comparing Jesus to John Garang is a blesphemy and an abomination. To begin with, John Garang was an over ambitious and a corrupt man, he is the cause of most of the conflicts he left behind, he sowed the seed of tribalism and division amongst the people of South Sudan, Garang hated the Equatorians, he hated the Nuers, hated the Chollos, he hated the people of W Bahr Ghazal, his movement was only to liberate the Dinkas and he wanted to take Khartoum originally a Dinka land back from the Jalaba by using others, particularly, the poor Nubians and the people of Southern Blue Nile, the Beja tribe and finally the Furs. Buthe failed to convince the majority of Southerners who only wanted to seperate from North since even before the Anya Nya movements. I still remember when Garang would tell his soldiers in your Dinka language that “this gun you are carrying is your mother, is your father, is your wife, is your food, is your everything”. What does that tells to an illitrate un discipline naked man coming from cow camps? It says you can commit any crime against humanity with that gun. Also there was phrase in morale song that was used by SPLA soldiers it says; ” sala abuk adi tataga, sala umak adi talaga, sala akuk adi talaga, sala okut taki adi hia talaga………” I hope you are old enough to remember the events of yester years. Simply this song means kill everybody, it doesn’t matter if they are your people or enemy. Why do you think people in Equatoria rejected John Garang’s model of rebellion, because, let’s be honest; the first objective of SPLA was to retaliate against the Equatorians because of kokora separation.So, how could you be talking of forgiveness while Dinkas until to date are still holding grudges of over 35 years during the divisions of regions? To me you are just another one of SPLA propagandist. Mr Mangok Agier, do not use the name of God for your personal gains, assuming that the audience are going to fall for your shallow political ambitions trying to neutralize the situation by using religion, leave the old politics of colonial brainwashing to the Europeans. In the first place South Sudan is a secular society, whether you Dinkas like it or not the only way out is to accept true reforms, and that is where SPLA falls so short, they have no longterm vision for the nation. SPLA as a party failed from the get go, there was no reconciliation after the signing of CPA or after independence, SPLA should have asked for forgiveness from the nation for the atrocities they committed. SPLA was not the first to pick up arms against the Khartoum government. Southerners struggled against European colonizers, against Turko-Egyptian, against the Arabs and now again Southerners are forced to fight against Dinka domination and SPLA cruelties. Francis, tell me for how long should our children, the orphans, the widows and the elderly continue to suffer in the hands of our own government now in Juba, I think you need to first preach your sermons to the bourgeois and epicureans in Juba who are so rigid and refuse the reforms that the public is asking for. Francis, you message of peace does resonate with me and I believe with many other fellow country men and women in peace, but does your message really appeal to the bloodthirsty SPLA? Does it mean anything to Dinka Council of Elders? Unfortunately the answer is most likely NO, they in turn would love a preacher like you to divert people’s attentions, wishing that by using “the name of God” that people will remain silent, South Sudanese are no more like the “darwisheen” of Darfurians who were told by the Arabs to wear hijabs and sew verses of Qur’an on their belts and go to kill the Kaffirs in South Sudan while the real Arabs don’t even read the book nor do they pray five times a day, but they are busy stealing and robbing the nation in the name of Allah. Please do not lie to the people mr Preacher; in the book of Galatians 6, verse 7; Apostle Paul told them this; “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows”. Please brother you need to go and read your Bible again, and next time come with the truth and not an SPLA gospel version. Eli Wani SSNLF Reply <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/?replytocom=1143756#respond> 10. Easy Money <http://southsudannation.com> June 13, 2015 at 1:43 pm <http://www.southsudannation.com/the-booze-and-the-president-against-the-nation/#comment-1144042> A Cake must be divided equally for all to benefit. That’s power sharing in government. In order to peacefully run the country, all must be represented on board. The tragedy of South Sudan is lack of an understanding the consequences of greed, when it comes to power sharing. As a matter of fact, do not be deceived, that you can enjoy the cake alone for ever,before it is snatched away from your mouth. For peace to prevail in this new nation, all the 64 ethnic groups should have insurance to participate and have ownership. Otherwise, south Sudan is locked up in civil strive, for decades to come. At the end, the country shall not exist any more. My question is,was that the objective of our liberation struggle? -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orV494zwPCUpjZMj4WLs_hLav7%2BGOR%2BjDPFF80BJY4Wcg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
