I don't know if i am the only one who finds people always connecting patriotism to loyalty to government. I mean i think i'm extremely patriotic, at the same time i have no loyalty nor support for the Sudanese government. To not fulfill your duties as leaders, and caretakers of the country is one thing but to continuously thrust it in turmoil is another level. I love my country and want only the best for it, i want it to move forward in every way possible and i think the 7akooma is only pulling us back.
I don't believe in war, unless you are defending yourself from direct attacks. And so far Sudan has never been attacked that there need be talk of war. Also, i loved Gérard Prunier's article (read it here) but he is an idiot for suggesting giving war a chance where have you been for the past trillion years? For being an 'academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa' with a PhD in African History, you should know that Sudan has already given war a chance and it failed miserably. Besides anyone knows that war is never restricted to the battlefield, that civilians die, homes, schools, hospitals are destroyed, the economy falls and has a dominoes effect on everything. We need to give Peace a chance, both within Sudan and with our new neighbour South Sudan. We need to allow the youth to share ideas, and the women to be heard and to break barriers of fear, and primitive racist ideologies.
When will we start picking ourselves up, realising that it's about time for change. Can greed really drive people to behave like this for so many years, in our case about 23 years. Can power corrupt to the extent that leaders think it's okay to kill and torture anyone who apposes their having this power? Is it really that hard to give it up. I don't know.
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