I have posted this topic for everyone to give his/her insightful perspectives. It seems that most of us are trying very hard to bring unity and moreover, to create a favorable environment for it to flourish. We have very powerful, forward-looking, optimistic, and dedicated young people who are devoted to the unpaid task of bringing unity and a better relation amongst their fellow southerners. However, this rampant and inveterate supremacy of some tribes is killing unity as well as the entire effort to bring unity amidst the southerners.
Could there be some proper ways of addressing this problem?
The so called unity is very hard to achieve within the south sudan unless some tribes abolished their idea of supremacy. The individual tribalistics men and women must find a better way to accommodate others otherwise they will be left alone to move ahead with their divisive actions. It donesn't make sense when people work very hard for the seek of unity and others violate it. It is going to be very hard to find some common grounds that will bring people together in the south sudan unless these tribes surrender their said will and work together with other tribes as southerners regardless of their biological tribes. People who are working for unity should not give up , they can go ahead with this mission acknowledging it that it is not easy task. It need full effort, tolarent, patient, and willingness for the sacrifice of others.
Santino Ajith
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You got it right! I think and I clearly know that there is no way we can succeed by going around the factual reality.
We as youths know that our politicians have plunged us into a political, social, and economic amensia. They have created and widened the hugh gap of disunity and inequality. The fact that most of them have been trying very much to leave us in tatters and confusion has to be noticed and rejected instead of accepting them.
We have to tell them that some of your policies are precisely wrong though they come from our families.
Most of the youths are making a collosal mistake of taking wrong and detrimental advice and tactics from their old politicians because they have been told it is a right way to dominate and create confusion among others.
As far as our biggest concern is disunity and fragile peace, it would be extremely helpful if we find a "common ground" as you put it.
I believe a genuine unity will only come when each side gives up its ambitions and hegemonic background assumptions for the sake of achieving a durable unity and tranquillity in the South.
Further, as youths or young people we have to find some ways to secure and protect our destiny from being corrupted and messed up by the people who are going away tomorrow.
I don't mean they are not important but the way our politicians or leaders are conducting themselves should not be taken without question. They have to co-operate with us in the way that we believe is right and will guarantee a brighter future for all of us.
We have to employ our faculties this time in a more constructive and healthy way.
We have to broaden our thinking and perspective so that we can know how we will ultimately succeed.
It is not a matter of feigning or deceiving and presuming that nobody is wiser than you to discover the hidden and detrimental motive.
We have to realize and knowledge the importance of all miscellaneous groups in the South when it comes to things that are done for the interest of the entire South.
Furthermore, I would advice my fellow southerners to consider this time as something completely different from the past.
We are all humans and therefore we must find right ways and work to bring unity and peace in our communities.
We have capacity to fight this war of self-caring, aggrandizement, wile, excessive tribalism, hegemony, and dominating tendency, lack of respect for other communities, seditions, malign and many more evil things that are eroding or perverting our traditions, cultures, and strong norms.
I hope most people who are in interested in the unity and peace in the South will find this topic really discussible.
Oops! that is fantastic Mr. Aher. I have been damn busy lately, but thought I should pop in to day and say hi to everyone. By the way, you guys have underscored the reality. Acheivement of southern unity requires a lot of comprises, there is an urgent need to let go of the we-are-more-important-then-them mentality. Southern Sudanese need to recognize that "they" are equal partners in the struggle. The superior mentality is simply a recipe to more disunity and consequent enslavement by Khartoum. We also need to be wary of our leaders, they are very good at politicising our differences to score some political points. All the best.
Bless be you and the rest of you who launched the website for valor and educated Aweilians.
Plus it is so nice to meet you on the web.
Iam so much moved for your question concerning the very word ,"UNITY".Mmm..Bwana Aher,to achieve this we need to start from the grass root, i mean people should begin from their family community and so forth.It is a very long process and it takes quite a long time to do so.
So from my point of view,to get through it in the south sudan, we Aweilians have to be example for it.I know part of it got played physically by the vigilants and determined armies of the county and the region at large.We intelectuals if not charlatant intellectuals need to plaster the cracks on the wall of unity.We get to be communicative by openly tell one other what we like and do not from our citizen and compromise from it.last but not least,we really must be trustful ,determined and loyal to our leaders and helders irrespective of their level of education.so to do this,we will be powerful and prosperous citizens of widely spoken county.May God bless us.Thanks Santino Deng Atuer.
Akol, I am tremendously happy to see you around my great ally. It has been awhile since we left Kenya. I hope you are pushing on well with American life.
With respect to your insightful views and unity. I believe nobody would ever attempt to disagree with you on the fact that unity, peace, and tranquillity must start at the grass root level. The element called unity starts with individual, family members (the father, mother, and children), the community, society, and the nation. This is what most of us fail to understand and practice. We have to give especial time to activities that promote unity, peace , and tranquillity.
We all talk of unity and peace but the problem is that we don't know how to bring unity and peace. I am far from affirming but I believe that things will work good for us if we all get involved in the promotion of unity and peace in Aweil community. I won't falter to suggest that unity will come to Aweil or South if each and every one of us thinks of himself as a part of the community, that means we all sacrifice ourselves to what will benefit the entire community.
Equally important, the respect for our leaders and elders is also highly significant for our progress or prosperity. It is, indeed, extremely helpful if the subjects obey and honor the leaders considering their tremendous enthusiasm, dedication, and wholeheartedness in leadership to their serve people. Further, it is historical that leaders are there to create, maintain, and more importantly enhance the relation amongst the citizens, because they have been confided with responsibility or obligation of promoting a better relation in the communities as well consolidating their destinies.
Nevertheless, we have oftentimes seen something contrary to our expectations especially, when you analytically and critically look at the situation in South Sudan. Our minds and hearts are always wondering in dim, dubious, and obsecure effervcsence with regard to whatever is taking place there. While most of us are trying to bring unity and peace, there is always an impediment to our effort. We have been frustrated irrespective of any forward motion toward bringing unity and peace, it has been utterly hindered by the people who believe that, the only way to benefit is to create enfeebled and pusillanimous people in the nation. Convincingly, this has been the fact of that particular situation in Sudan, and that situation has messed everything up and therefore disoderly created chaos.
Ladies and gentlemen, things have happened in South Sudan which will never create a favorable environment for unity and tranquillity in the South. There are certain notions, certain hegemonic beliefs, and certain superiority complex, which are guiding a few individuals in that leadership.There are people especially in that leadership who are trying very hard to make sure one tribe in the south has unconquerable, unbeatable, and the worst of all unquestionable ability in relation to south leadership. These individuals/individual have delayed the termination of the war, they have localized and privatized the war from international view, they have thined out leaders from other tribes and replaced them with their kindreds, so that, the leadership has no people from different backgrounds, and they have turned some of the leaders against some of their tribal men as a powerful instrument to enfeeble them and therefore would cause pusillanimous and timid population in those areas. Consequently, these people will have no resolute, courage, optimism, hope, ambition, and potential to make constructive vicssititudes in their lives but they will simply be enervated, compressed, extinguished, and stupefied.
Ladies and gentlemen, without question we have been made so. The slavery and NIF have played their major role in destroying Aweil to foundation. The tragic period in Aweil and other part of Bhar el Ghazel was left not confronted because it was a way indirectly designed to reduce population and enfeeble those particular areas. It was believed that the best way to make small or tiny tribe successful was to politically weaken other communities, through marginalization as well as confinement of their trained troops in different places and not their homes. I don't think it is not ridiculous. Look for instance, Aweil and Bhar el ghazel have contributed more troops and they are the ones devastated more, Aweil in particular. Aweil has faced tragic difficulties but nobody has ever attempted to confront the devastation facing our innocents for two decades. They have been left unguarded or unprotected notwithstanding the fact that, we (Aweil people) have contributed more active fighting troops in the South than any tribe. Akol and everybody, does this leader deserve any respect from people whom he doesn't care? I would say no. We can't give him any allegiance at all. The fact that who doesn't faithfully and equally protect his citizens means a lot to us. The tactical mass deception played by him and his brothers must be questioned.
I am not against peace, unity, or anybody in the South but I will never hesitate to condemn hegemonic notions and political mendaciy in the South. I believe the leadership in the south has ability to defeat NIF in a short time possible, has ability to bring unity and peace among tribes in the South. However, I doubt if the peace and unity will come yet because the intention and mission of John Garang are not yet clear to all of us. He has been wavering between delaying war for his personal benefis and peace for Southerners. He has never prioritized them so that he can exceute them in logical and manageable sequence.
Ladies and Gentlemen,the best way to learn Garang's dangerous weaknesses and detrimental tendency is to look at Darfur war. Ask this question. When did it break out and how did it catch international community attention? The war in Sudan has been principally delayed so that the tiny community of john Garang acquire ability to dominate, oppress, and extinguish the political ability of other major tribes in the South. This has been coordinated by their intellectuals and everybody in the community so that the well-contrived plan would not fail. It is a community effort involving everybody and you can simply learn that from what happened in Phonix, Arizona, in the presence of their leaders who didn't hesitate to support that extreme idea of dominating people in Ameica, the truely democratized country in the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's strongly and geniunely unite because things are not good in relation to the way our people are being treated.
"When the leadership languishes, everything around it languishes, when the leadership sleeps, everything around it sleeps, and when the leadership dies, everything around it dies." By Alexis Tocqueville.
We have been claiming about unity and peace since the War begun in 1983.But,only Aweilian people are strugling for really peace and justice with no war againist others tribemate in the South ,
Let all of us in Aweil be a lawyers to everybody in the south ,than there will be unity everywere in South Sudan .
Dear Brothers, let me cross this word which DR Arthur Obeil of kenya told President Moi .He said fool can be president .But, he can not be DR to treat people .
I apologize please if I didn't understand your point.
I think you know that unity is extremely fragile to achieve in the South, because all of us (Southerners) don't look at the importance of unity and peace in same light. Furthermore, there are people in the South, who think that unity and peace will come only through aristocracy or autocracy in the South. This dangerous notion has made it really difficult to bring unity and it will jeopardize our effort more. For the unity to come and flourish in the South, we have to believe that unity and tranquillity will benefit everybody.
Garang, you talk of Aweill people being "lawyers" to everybody. Do you think Aweil commitment to unity without other people support would bring unit to the whole South?
I think right now we should encourage unity in Aweil. The quest for unity for the entire South is being frustrated by the people who have dominating tendency. They never want to share administration with a people from a different background. Therefore, momemtarily it is impractical if not impossible to jump from Aweil unity to South. Southerners are not ready for unity yet.
With respect to your quotation from Dr.Arthur Obeil to the former president of kenya, Moi.
"Fool can be president but he can't be a medical doctor to treat people." Based on specialization, this is right because people take different careers in life and therefore we will never do what we haven't gone to school for.
However, Dr.Arthur Obeil was wrong on making assertion that a fool can be a president. That was a collosal misinterpretation. A fool can be a president in olden days but not in the current and modern politics. We are all moving toward perfection and correct understanding and apprehension of politics. It doesn't necessarily mean that somebody has to go to school for a political science to be a president but he must be educated to take presidency. Ironically, may be Dr.Arthur mentioned this to comfort Mr.Moi, because Moi was Moi was somehow not rightly educated. He had some major challenges in his administration because he didn't have sufficient education background.
