Dr . Riek Machar Must not Hold South Sudan Hostage

By President Salva Kiir Mayardit

Dr Riek Machar must not hold South Sudan hostage. Therefore, he must accept the post of Prime Minister within 45 days ultimatum  as proposed by the arbiter, the IGAD bloc or he face all out war aiming  at defeating him.

I , as the President of the Republic, I have been accused of plunging the country into  the conflict but there is no any political system whether headed by God or me that is immune from  the negative revolutions  like the one of Dr Riek.

The Philosopher Karl Marx said in his theory of class struggle ‘’ the classes emerge when society starts to produce private property. When society starts realizing private property, social division of labour emerges with one social category or class attempting to control the private property at the expense of other classes. Class struggles are nothing but struggles aiming at controlling private property and means of production. in order to maintain their control over means of production , one class seek to control state power and its uses state power to enhance its class interest  vis –a – vis other classes , that is  political struggles are nothing but the extension of economic struggles for private property’’

Let me paraphrase some   part of  the above Marxism  ‘’ tribe struggles are nothing but struggles aiming  at controlling private property ….one tribe seek to control state power to enhance its tribe interest…..political struggles are the extension of tribe struggles for private property ‘’

My Government has been labeled as Dinka , therefore  ,   Nuer want to take power from  it . Tomorrow, Zande will take power from Nuer in another bloody revolution like this.  And   Acholi will take it from Azande  in the same patterning  ……and the sequence continues.

Is this how South Sudan will be ruled? Absolutely NOT.

Make no mistakes, my government is not tribal.  The private property or means of production is  not controlled by my tribe . These are just invalid argument applied by Dr Riek to mobilize the innocent white White Armies.

I am now, the chief of state, the chief legislator, the chief Judge, I am symbolically everything in South Sudan. I have the duties, obligations and responsibilities that will influence the social, economical and political history of South Sudan in the next 1000 years.

Thus, What is the workable solution to our political and economic conflicts?. The answer is the Constitution. The Constitution will set the rules of the games of acquiring private property and the political power as the ultimate aims of the struggles .  Of course , as the nation, we have the Constitution but it is incomplete.

As I said earlier, South Sudan must not be held hostage by Dr Riek ,.All development programs stopped because of Dr Riek ‘s war. . we are not doing anything now because of the crisis .  South Sudan is bigger than Dr Riek . This is the solution to mother of all conflicts ‘’ the tribal struggles for economic and political power ‘’

As the President of this Republic, I have the lever to influence it history. And I must do the following things.

1. I will authorized the Parliament to write the permanent constitution that will separate the power of the executive (the president) , Legislature ( the MPs) and the Judiciary ( supreme court), . The parliament will also set the limits of the powers of each branch of the government, so that no branch abuse its powers or no branch is above another branch.  Parliament will also put the term limit in the constitution, it will also be legislated that after the end of each president rule, all his decision must be judicial reviewed.  If he violates the constitution during his rule,  he will face full force of the law.  .

I as the first president and the author of these rules will be exempted

2 .  If Dr Riek do not accept the post of Prime Minister within the 45 days, all cessation of hostilities agreement will be cancelled and I will declare war against him. There will be no any peaceful settlement.  He will either defeat the Constitutional army or the constitutional armies defeat him

3  The election will go head  as it was planned in 2011. This will stop South Sudanese politicians from rewriting the rules in the middle of the game again in future.  The political game started in 2011 in South Sudan  and it would run until 2015. But it was stopped by Dr Riek on December 15 ,2015

I , as a referee, during the  match ,  I have right to give a  red card  to any player who foul play . . and the one I send out from the pitch has no right in whatsoever to fight me . he must wait  until end of 90 minute or 2015 for that matter .

The ultimate aims of these policies  is the just , prosperous South Sudan.

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Courtesy of David Aoloch Bion

South Sudan Literature Series

Juba, South Sudan.

Filmmakers Create Humanitarian Fund for Sudanese Refugees Whose Courageous Stories Inspired “The Good Lie”

The Good Lie Fund, established by producers of the film “The Good Lie,” will support humanitarian and educational needs of refugees from the Sudanese Civil War. (Graphic: Business Wire)

 

September 08, 2014 11:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The producers of “The Good Lie” have established the Good Lie Fund, named for the upcoming feature drama from Alcon Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment, Black Label Media and Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is based upon the harrowing and inspirational real-life experiences of thousands of children impacted by war in Sudan.

“I had the feeling, then, that I was abandoning them, and that feeling stayed with me until I read Margaret Nagle’s script for ‘The Good Lie.’ It was like a calling, to finish this in another way and to tell their story.”

The Good Lie Fund (www.thegoodliefund.org) was created to support the humanitarian and educational needs of those who have come to be universally known as the Lost Boys and Girls, uprooted and orphaned by the Sudanese Civil War that began in 1983. Its initial focus will be the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, which came into being to meet the first wave of survivors of the conflict—the majority of them children, alone, and on foot—and which currently houses thousands of refugees fleeing from continuing violence and unrest.

The Fund will also seek to raise worldwide awareness of the dire situation that still exists in South Sudan. As part of this publicity campaign, the producers of “The Good Lie” have planned a Washington, D.C. fundraiser in mid-September to benefit the war refugees from South Sudan and those still living in the Kakuma camp. Many corporations have already pledged their support and donations. Black Label Media and Alcon Entertainment have also seeded the Good Lie Fund to start the fundraising effort, in honor of the film and its story.

Additionally, “The Good Lie” will be made available for select screenings by various philanthropic groups and Lost Boys and Girls communities throughout the U.S. and overseas, in advance of its October 3, 2014 U.S. release date, to aid in their own fundraising and awareness efforts.

Said producer Molly Smith, “This film was a labor of love for all of us. I am so proud and happy to know that it will not only be a compelling and personal story for audiences everywhere to see, but may also serve to illuminate an ongoing and little-known human drama.”

Director Philippe Falardeau’s involvement with the plight of the South Sudanese refugees began with a documentary assignment that was cut short due to escalating hostilities, and he sees “The Good Lie”—both the film and the Fund—as continuing what he had just begun when evacuated from South Sudan in 1994. “I had the feeling, then, that I was abandoning them, and that feeling stayed with me until I read Margaret Nagle’s script for ‘The Good Lie.’ It was like a calling, to finish this in another way and to tell their story.”

Contact information for the Good Lie Fund will appear in the film’s end credits.

“The Good Lie” opens in limited theatrical engagements October 3, 2014. It stars Reese Witherspoon; Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal and Kuoth Wiel, all of whom are of Sudanese descent; and Corey Stoll. Directed by Philippe Falardeau from a screenplay by Margaret Nagle, “The Good Lie” was produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela Sherwood, Molly Smith, Thad Luckinbill and Trent Luckinbill. Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Kim Roth, Ellen H. Schwartz, Deepak Nayar, and Bobby and Deb Newmyer served as executive producers. The creative filmmaking team included director of photography Ronald Plante, production designer Aaron Osborne, editor Richard Comeau, costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb and composer Martin Leon.

A presentation of Alcon Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment and Black Label Media, “The Good Lie” is a Black Label Media, Imagine Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment production and will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Contacts

For Warner Bros. Pictures
Paulette Osorio
818-954-2708
Paulette.osorio@warnerbros.com
or
For Black Label Media
Heidi Lopata / 42 West
424-901-8730
Heidi.lopata@42west.net
or
Go to:
www.thegoodliefund.org

A Comment On “Ajak Deng Chiengkou of SBS Dinka Radio in Australia”

By David Chol

One Year Annniversary of SBS DINKA Radio:

Hey Bol you better stay away from messing up with SBS radio. If you have problem with Ajak deal with it differently, but do not connected it public program because this radio program does not belong to Ajak himself this is for all of us including you.

Also, it does not belong to Dinka a lone either even though the name is connected with Dinka. You c/o this Radio is serving according to people interest in Australia maybe your interest alone is not being met due to your differences with the host of the program, but according to me this has inform a lot people all the world about the problem that going in our country.

FYI this program has serve a lot people better than any other radio services in south sudan either back home or out side of the country. you think this Radio program was only for you people in Australia but it is not buddy you got it wrong many people listen to it all over the world.

If you want to be a part of the group just apply you will be hired and you do not like the program than stop listening to it. I know you are jealous because you are not employ by the program.

so brother jealousy will take you nowhere and this kind of behaviors will do us no good at all.

Do you remember the article titled ‘gossips and rumours among south Sudanese communities in Australia’ posted recently here?

Biar John, Australia

Gossip and Rumors among South Sudanese Communities in Australia

Do you remember the article titled ‘gossips and rumours among south Sudanese communities in Australia’ posted recently here?

If you don’t, then, go down the list right here and you will find it.

On reading that article, you will find that it lacks pathos. Meaning it doesn’t have any persuading appeals to the readers’ emotions. Some of those who read it claimed they felt disgusted.

It was paradoxical what followed days later after the article got posted. The article exacerbated the very situation it was aiming to address.

The language choice; the topic itself, plus the fact, it wasn’t edited, affected the audiences’ responses. The scathing criticism that resulted; the annoyance and more gossips and rumours it generated went beyond one could have imagined.

After reading the article, some dudes projected their own insecurities, negativities, and fears on the writer in an amazing manner.

On reading the article, one of the dudes rushed to his Facebook account, and made an analogy on his wall between the author and someone he called a ‘nigga on a Tuesday, at about 11 in the morning, drunk as hell.’

According to this dude:

‘the legs of that niger were barely supporting him upright; his mouth falsely tells you that he is chewing a bar soap or something related to it – the mouth is foaming, that he tries to tell you something but his lips and tongu…e fail him. He then began to conclude, ‘Well, that’s how I see some writers. And I feel the same way.’

One of the commenters on that guy’s wall gave this response below:

‘Once upon a time, a certain dude posted an article about a chaotic social situation in his locality.

The article was posted in two blogging sites, i.e. panluel wel and borglobe network. In both sites, the article appeared different in content, both in wording and sentencing.

At panluel wel, the article looked pretty much edited. However, the borglobe one appeared completely unedited, and looking like it was written while on the run. In fact, it took an hour and half to write it all and post it; the author didn’t get enough time to edit that day.

The writer had mistakenly entrusted the polishing or editing job to the editors of the sites. And for sure, panluel wel, somehow, did some editing, while borglobe didn’t.

Because of the minor errors, a certain dude was last night prompted to take to the social media network, and started to quack in his usual arena of frivolity and nonsense.

But despite the histrionic attitudes, the big boy or author was aware of the mistakes, and was able to identify himself and the mistakes.

He has grown beyond hiding from his mistakes, and doesn’t see anyones as competitors.

He feels such competition is for those who feel inadequacies in themselves; who didn’t know the guy they thought is invincible can be impetuous.

The big boy took it all with modesty, and holds no grudges against the whimsical discoverer or competitor.

You wouldn’t assume or expect someone strives in secrecy, to compete you in a competition whose cause you mightn’t know. You don’t know what is in their minds until you see them running around, and blabbing about mistakes in total hysteria, thinking they found some soft spots that they are able to exploit if need be.’

Despite the errors in the article being moderate, and the majority of the readers being neutral, the haters could still out from their hiding dungeons, and could be heard thunderously loud and clear in the foreground, feeling unhappy, the off limit has been touched. But off limit or forbidden for how long?

If you can’t tell how long, then take a judge’s position and pass your guilty verdict on the author, but know that the situation the article exposed has gone on for a long time, and is not stopping any sooner.

A lot of guys such as the above projected some of the most scathing criticisms ever seen. And the greatest of these critics were known personally to the author. And as you can see from the above example given; these guys vomited the most poisonous feelings any author would dare to remember.

Seeing the author as a competitor, they made the delusional intention to strike fear into the writer, believing they would shut him down permanently. They didn’t understand the fact that doing so was only toughening up the already toughened dude.

The dude is an amateur and had written short informal articles in the past under alias on other south Sudanese websites, and since then, has always known someone is out there, wishing total worthlessness to whatever is in the content of anything anyone writes.

The author is very well aware that all that is important is to know that haters can gossip, spread rumours, and scathingly criticise, but it doesn’t mean they can make choices on what you do; how you do it.

Usually, they criticise and move on, looking for more to victimise as they have a tendency to do so. This means if you had fallen as a result of their destructive actions, you can now safely pick up from where you fell, and move on.

Sometime in the past, the author read some work on good and bad. It was a research work, and that means it was factual what was in the content.

According to that research, bad excites many delusion dudes than good as it is natural for them to just hate and wish bad luck to others. Despite not seeing any bad in persons of the choices in their list, they would still hate for the sake of it; let alone having something a little bid criticisable like in the above titled article.    

But as a writer, it is not the criticism, gossips, and rumours that are the biggest problems. Working up to the courage and moving past your own uncertainties and vulnerabilities is your biggest challenge.

Therefore, in order to prevent dudes such as the above one from putting you down you have to strengthen belief in oneself.

Negativity won’t disappear, negative people like him won’t stop and critical comments won’t run out, that’s why the best way to deal with them is to learn how to not let them affect you.

Be very strong and many of similar minds such as the above dude, plus neighbourhood gossipers and rumour mongers, who might not be aware they knocking their heats on a rock, will simply fade or wither off like winter leaves of deciduous forests .