Subject: Can there be Peace in the country before Christmas 2014?
By John Juan Dong,
a Retired Local Government Officer,
Best greetings
Your Excellency Sir,
Dear Mr. president, this is an open letter with a legitimate piece of advise from a senior officer. We know you don’t like reading but you must this one your excellency (Photo: Nyamilepedia version)
November 26, 2014(Nyamilepedia) — Whereas I may have no right to write to a president of a country, however, I feel duty bound and satisfied to do so as we are all servants of this nation who volunteered to start the first movement in 1964. In my view, we all bear the burden of blame when we are sometimes overcome by the sudden crisis.
We are viewed by the outsiders as being ignorant to pursue the chain of the cause. Am proud of being one of the Nuer elders to offer advice to a president from another tribe with whom we share the same right. Of course being the top leader of a country and as such being the fountain of honor, you may not need to be advised, however, sharing notes always leads to prosperity. “A Problem shared is a problem solved” – Dracker. Writing to a son from Dinka tribe whose culture gives the impression of being faithfully advised gives me confidence.
Generally, my heart is still bearing the ten months of pain as I observe the first government in history of a new nation which is mandated to offer the best example of a peaceful leadership stumbling over a “rock”. Particularly, the 15th of December 2013 incidence when people of South Sudan were preparing the XMASS Day bears a permanent scare in the hearts of many. “We cannot escape history and neither can we escape a desire to understand it”.
The period 1964-1968 I spent with you under Manyang Chol Ruej Command during the first movement of hit and run is recalled. We were so young, and I was a first year student of Bentiu Intermediate School but fighting a war as if in my home land Bentiu (….) More→
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Mr John, you are an experienced old man. I doubt if your suggestions shall be considered. But I have another suggestion. Convince IGAD that the safest and feasible solution to this conflict is for IGAD to impose a Federal System in the old states of the SSudan. Take all Police, Prisons Wild Life, Fire Brigade forces to their states. Replace the judiciary according to their states. The result will be dramatic and effective. Convince others
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