Juba Massacre and the consequent massacres

What's important is not mere blame but a process leading to avoidance of historical mistakes. And sometimes bad things have to be relived to avoid their re-occurrences. Anyone, who's ever watched slaves' narratives made into motion pictures might have sometimes questioned the logic of such movies. The pain and anger one feels makes one question the intelligibility in making such gut-wrenching reliving of a painful, grotesque, and immoral past. However, history is a necessary monster that makes the reliving of such events necessary. We have to be reminded of a painful past in order not to repeat it.

We've now passed the second anniversary of the inception of the current crisis and we've been more divided than we've been in decades. South Sudanese are more divided now than they've ever been. And it'll take a very skilled, brave and selfless leader to bring all the tribes together.

I can't see that leader!

28-States Proposal is a Myopic, Unforgivable National Disaster

History is supposed to be one of those phenomena that informs us about what we should and should not repeat. Unfortunately, in South Sudan, history is just irrelevant unless it serves the interest of the ruling elites. And we’ve seen with a damning, scary reality how history has been used not only to repeat the past, but to also consciously destroy the nation. Decisions coming out of the two sides of the political divide in South Sudan are depressing. The rebels are intransigent; and they easily exploit government’s bad and ill-informed decisions/decrees. And the government makes one dangerous decision after another without any thought put into how dangerous such decisions might be.

I’m going to ignore Dr. Riek Machar’s 21-State proposal because it was rejected during IGAD negotiation process. Dr. Riek too has no practical authority—unlike the president—to enforce his proposal. Besides, 21-States proposal is another unnecessary re-division of the country. However, the case of 28-States proposal (also known as Order Number 36/2015) is different and disconcertingly, futuristically, divisive and disastrous.