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Juuk who was speaking during a thanksgiving event to welcome newly-appointed member of the SPLM party Stephen Dhieu Dau on Sunday, December 18, said Prophet Isaiah said in one of his prophecies that South Sudanese will be punished by God and that what the citizens are facing is that punishment.
“I am not frustrated with the current situation – the wars. I tell people we [SPLM] are not responsible and not to be blamed for this insecurity. This is something prophesied by the prophet Isaiah. God punished Sudan and we are the Sudanese,” Juuk said, according to Eye Radio.
“The prophecy was before even Christ, how do they know that there is the country that is going to be called Sudan at that time, even when we became independent. We clicked on the word Sudan, we don’t move out of Sudan name, and we don’t create a new name and we are Sudanese,” he added.
He continued that: “We knew very well that Sudan has been cursed in the Bible. So, this curse continues to be until the time God will say enough is enough, now then the people of South Sudan become free, I don’t blame us as a punishment of God.”
South Sudan’s civil war broke out in December 2013 following disagreements between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny over who should take the SPLM into elections then slated for 2015.
The SPLA, previously the official name of the country’s army, then divided along ethnic lines and civilians were targeted in Juba triggering mutinies among senior army generals leading to the deadly civil war which has killed at least half a million and displaced millions of citizens to neighboring countries and to internal IDP camps.
Politicians if are really politicians have to think twice about what they are saying before even saying it. politician is a leader who may become a president of a country, minister, mp, and respectable intellectual. The suffer that south sudanese experiencing now came with SPLA/SPLM’s failure to maintain objectives and principles of Dr. John Garang movement. We as just citizens not politicians, we were living better life under Khartoum government than now. if Sudan is cursed by God, then we can conclude that God lifted the curse that was upon Sudan that time, and imposed it again on Sudan during Spla ruling in the south! the only reason for all this political failure in South Sudan is the absence of John Garang.
God not mention the tribe should humility not God cursed Sudan
Sudan have been in war for almost forty years back