To my people: A life of one South Sudanese is dear, precious, special, and golden. This moral stand must hold in time of conflict, confusion and relative peace. Our people don’t deserve to live in a harbor of misery in the refugees and displaced camps because we can’t agree and make peace. If we had refrained and negotiated as one people, we would have saved thousands of lives, avoided the destruction of properties and reduced the suffering of our civilians. A decade from now, South Sudanese will still feel the pain of this conflict. Even when we reached this far, a point where trust is completely tarnished between the warring parties, we must focus on a new beginning championed by the spirit of peace, nationalism, unity, and priorities across our ten states. Our objectives must make this call a genuine urgency to help this president and the opposition to bring our country back on the wheel of dialogue and compromise. We must be hopeful in our southern solidarity that reconciliation can be done if we believe. And no matter how pessimistic we are during this conflict, the processes of peace building must be our pride, forgiveness and reconciliation must be our source of justice to correct the past and present with exigency. Adherences to these basic provisions have the potential to make South Sudan a sanctuary of resilience, perseverance and hope if we want our country to reach the hierarchy and standardization of nations. To get there, our citizens must accept tolerance and courageous flexibility to dialogue. A tolerance invested in the context of debating issues of critical importance in our country with hope, and still find an unbending voice and strength in our yards of citizenship and patriotism to listen to each other. They can still find the strength and creativity to find a genuine, comprehensive and committed peace. We should know by now that if it took more than five decades of war for South Sudanese and their brothers in the Northern part of the Sudan to win the liberation and independence of the Republic of South Sudan, it would probably take more than five decades to rebuild South Sudan to a level we want to see. This means, our patience must be embraced. Violence shouldn’t come first before dialogue when seeking the presidency. We must end this conflict first and resume the task of justice and reconciliation later. We can’t allow frustrations to undo everything we have successfully achieved. This is the only way we could arrive to our destiny in the same boots.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:54:35 +0000
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