One-sided Love !!Misseiriya and Dinka by Dr. Abdel Karim Elgoni

One-sided Love !!Misseiriya and Dinka by Dr. Abdel Karim Elgoni

14/06/2011 09:02:00

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Dr. Abdel Karim Elgoni



Abdul.elgoni @ gmail.com



I hate war because it is not needed unless all other treatment methods and solutions are exhausted. But the war is the order of the day in the Abyei region. I was discussing the issue with a friend from DRC as we watched the CNN preview news about the army in Abyei. My friend said to me “why have the army occupied Abyei? and how can President al-Bashir say Abyei is a northern town while there are resolutions of the International Tribunal and others about it as being part of the South?”
I told him that President Bashir is right when he said that Abyei is in the north because that's what the International Tribunal said in its ruling and what the Comprehensive Peace Agreement says "Abyei is North, but can be transferred to the South if its population chose to go south in the referendum". This referendum did not take place in January 2011 as planned for the reasons best known to those in power and politics. Therefore, until the referendum happens, and people choose to stay north or be part of the new South Sudan country, Abyei is a northern town and in the north it should remain.
That is why we are preaching that people should not just look under their feet and at what is happening now, just because the Government army occupied Abyei. The northern army was in Abyei since independence and no one questioned its presence there. Rather people must also look to the future because there are thousands of sons and daughters of the Dinka living for generations just north of Abyei in Almeiram, Elmuglad, and El-Fula and far away north in Annahud and Khartoum etc.
We need our people to work amid Misseiriya and Dinka brothers, showing them that the taste of life is when peace would prevail, when respect and peaceful coexistence and mutual benefits are the talk of the day. Not war and hostilities. It is a fact that for three hundred years respect and peaceful coexistence and mutual benefits ruled between the Misseiriya and Dinka and it could as well be harnessed for the three hundred years to come.
But my friend did not like my words he said to me that you are a dreamer. That what I am talking about is the one-sided love. He reiterated to me that the Dinka do not love us and do not want to live with us and have asked us to get out of their land Abyei. He said “your troops have attacked their forces and occupied Abyei. Why insist on coexistence with them. This would be compulsion, which contradicts the human rights you are fighting for. And how do you want them to live with you and the army occupied Abyei displacing all the Dinka south of Bahr Alarab?”
I told my friend that he is talking about the Dinka and Misseiriya in what he was saying but rather talking about the SPLA/M and National Congress Party (NCP). I said Dinka and Messeiriya age in this land is more than three hundred years. The SPLA/M and NCP are the young boys in the block and they are just in their twenties in this country. I do not know how long their short lived life would become. Both are transitory, and what will remain are Misseiriya and Dinka. They shall inhabit this land and share the benefits for hundreds of years in one state or two neighboring countries, it does not matter.
As long as this is the case, we will continue to advocate peaceful coexistence and we will continue to reject hostilities and war. We will work to prevent disputes being transformed into conflicts and address the implications of conflict when it inevitably occurs as Messeiriya and Dinka are the primary vulnerable stakeholders, not NCP or SPLA/M as it appears.

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