This is not atime to condemn each other, because now we are in war. we have one enemy, and have certain gold an objective that we had been fighting for during last 21yrs.we need to a chieve this gold.what john garang had achieve for southern sudan right no one had a chieve it.I know and beleive that Doctor John is dictator, let say this are there,but it should not be an excuse to destroy the movement or destroy what we have fighting for.we have so many people who payed their life for our freedom and dignity. so we need this peace agreement to implement, so to stop our people suffering. we must have to wait and till peace and stability is there, then we can start condeming John garang or judge him. by saying this iam not dignifying that John garang as not commited faults but this is not a right time.we need an independent state nominated leader, that will lead us but other wise your condemination is just a mess.
Thanks,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,David Deng kak.........cairo
Man you should read the minutes of Rumbek conference before telling us to wait. We waited for 21 years, but Garang did not reform, do you want us to wait for another 21 years before we tell Garang that he is a bad man?
quote: Mr Deng santo..........what u mean by reforming a man in power? what 21 yrs that you are saying, we will wait for a gain either than this.iam saying we should wait and see the end of nabasha agreement,how far it will goes. then the voice of southern sudan people will speak for wanting election, and vote to elect a leader we want then the one you call bad man..............David deng......... Originally posted by: Deng Santo "Deng Kak, Man you should read the minutes of Rumbek conference before telling us to wait. We waited for 21 years, but Garang did not reform, do you want us to wait for another 21 years before we tell Garang that he is a bad man?"
I thank you all for your leadership,friendship, and for educating some of us who do not know Dr. John for his leadership toward s. Sudan and Spla/m.
the majorty of us who came from Egypt, Syria, and rest of Arab world, think that John Garang is the one. he is agreat man, intellegent, trustworty, and honest.
But the the fact is we don't know much information about his work with Spla/m. (Southern Sudanese). i uarge you (Mading Aweil) to resolute, and fight for your right; the time has come. We have suffered great lost. Nothing can bring us together, and unite us if we don't speak out, share our positive, negative opinions.
i also uarge Mading Aweil or who ever bring up topics or anything that have to do with Dr.John to be positve, self confendent, and support his topic.
Dengacu, You may as well wait. However, the time is never gonna come. I know it is not gonna knock at your door and you hope to respond approprietely. I think whatever we should do should start right away. The sooner we see some positive changes, the better.
What you should know and perhaps other peole is that people are actually pushing for changes not neccessarily for Garang to go but to change the way he does thing and possibly start sharing the power with all the people of the south. We need everybody to have a voice in the government. I mean Garang is a respected man and we want him to change. If he doesn't change, that is where people say, he should go and I think he should if he is not willing to change.
We should be careful to not label people as anti Garang. No one is anti Garang. Not here at Mading Aweil Website. Not your people. We just want to see changes that will facilitate development. We cannot get anything done if there is only one person making decisions.
Have a good time everybody.
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I share the same view with Dengacu so as to give Garang time solve our problems before we give him a red card. History has shown us that our suffering was attributed to lack of trust in our leaders and more importantly, our unforgiving attitude towards them.
I am sure that if Garang is ejected today, a leader will still emerge from a certain section, thus making this war non-stop. I strongly believe that it is very hard to restore what was destroyed by someone esle, so why do we have to cheat ourselves for no reason.
Garang and his family have done a lot of damage to me though but I have o give them time to solve that problem before I pick up arms.
I am also made to understand that there is no way Aweil community will stand for their rights in Lieu of new sudan. It makes me uneasy when you talk of the rights of Aweil! What is the difference between the rights of south sudanese and Aweilian rights? Absolutely not unless you wanna become tribalistic. Everyone has suffered in proportion to their total polpulation. It's common sense that Aweil has to lose a lot because they have a lot. Bor and Nuer did too.
Hope you will give that tyrant some times to realise his mistaakes.
Thanks for contributing constructively. Your ideas are far so good to some point. A rational being can understand your argument and agree with you on some issues. What you are saying is not far from what most of us are saying, nobody want to change John Garang from leadership of south sudan at this particular time. Many of southerners just want him to transform himself from the first mess. He can be forgiven but what frustrate some people is when he still pursuing the past ideologies that most of us don't like. South sudan as a nation want a transparency leadership with accountability.
Aweil community has a lion share when it come to lost of lives in southern sudan. I agreed with you that some other communities too suffered great losts but the lost is not proportional. Some lost in Aweil were the result of weak leadership in the movement that is why Aweil community is bitterly unhappy about them sometime. Our community had endured great suffering for a long time but our movement leadership always throw a blind eye to the ball. For example, there is no promising response from our leadership in regard to recent famine in northern Bhar el Gazal, only the native people are trying to cater for it. All in all, there is nothing we can do with this present leadership in south sudan but we would like to see some changes taking place. Lack of trust can be built back only if the person is willing to cooperate with people.
Have a great day.
Thanks
Santino Ajith
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At the onset, I just want to extent my sincere gratitude for your replies. I have always been put to worry when I see a great community like Aweil speaking for their own welfare. I strongly believe that a perfect leader is not yet born. Power corrupts and I wouldn't be shocked to find a corrupt gentleman once you are elected the boss of certain entity.
I have also lost very important guys to this reckless movement but we keep queit because we don't want to prove Arabs corrects since they have always tried to portray us in the international Arena as " unable to govern themselves".
In nature, the bigger lose big and the smaller lose small. I am not celebration the massive lost of Aweil and I am trying to say that it's a balance equated by nature.
acu so as to give Garang time solve our problems before we give him a red card. History has shown us that our suffering was attributed to lack of trust in our leaders and more importantly, our unforgiving attitude towards them.
