{"id":22817,"date":"2017-05-23T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2017-05-23T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T09:14:57","slug":"south-sudan-takes-unity-achieve-peace-bishop-kussala-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/05\/23\/south-sudan-takes-unity-achieve-peace-bishop-kussala-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH SUDAN &#8211; &#8220;It takes unity to achieve peace&#8221; &#8211; Bishop Kussala  &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SOUTH SUDAN &#8211; &#8220;It takes unity to achieve peace&#8221; &#8211; Bishop Kussala<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala of Tombura-Yambio has published \u201cAn Open Letter of Hope and Peace to the Elders of Greater Bahr El Ghazal.\u201d In it Bishop Kussala, the president of the Sudanese Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference, called on leaders in South Sudan\u2019s Bahr El Ghazal region to work for peace. He stressed the importance of unity to fight segregation and division and restore peace \u00a0in the violence-ridden country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Achieving peace said Bishop Kussala \u201cdemands of all of us that we act with real respect for human life. It demands that those who still sponsor anger, hate, segregation and violence against one another end such meaningless projects or ideas.\u201d He acknowledged that working to change the spiral of suffering, revenge killings, and hatred displacement is a difficult task that \u201cdemands new initiatives.\u201d The bishop urged leaders of civil society, religious leaders, community organizations, business, cultural and other leaders in Greater Bahr El Ghazal to seize an opportunity for such initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Civil war in South Sudan started in December 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy, Riek Machar, of attempting a coup. Since then their supporters have fought an intermittent war largely along ethnic lines and peace agreements have been short-lived. The conflict has created more than 2.5 million refugees and up to 5 million people face severe food insecurity as a result of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAt the core of the crisis within South Sudan\u2019s war-affected communities and regions is the desire to acquire power and secure resources for one group of elites or one ethno-national group at the expense of others,\u201d Bishop Kussala said. This has created tension and division, and \u201chas undermined the social fabric of our society or nation,\u201d even affecting neighbouring countries as refugees seeking the escape the conflict flee to other nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIn all of these cases, violence has led to the breakdown of our beloved homes,\u201d Bishop Kussala continued. \u201cHuman lives have been lost. Infrastructure has been destroyed, education and health services have suffered, and the environment has been damaged. The ties that link people together\u2026have been broken, social solidarity has collapsed and political tension has been highly generated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, Kussala believes that peace is possible, as shown by the \u201crelative peace, development and economic growth after our national independence shortly in 2011.\u201d He called on the elders of Greater Bahr El Ghazal to \u201cengage all stakeholders\u201d in seeking peace, allowing for dialogue and supporting genuine efforts aimed at reconciliation and healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In an effort to restore this stability, Kussala urged the elders to publically and unequivocally condemn revenge killings, violence against civilians and the use of hate speech which fosters tribal division. He added that they should \u201ccall urgently for immediate robust humanitarian intervention for the starving people in and outside Wau,\u201d pushing for roads to be opened to aid workers delivering food for the hungry population. He also recommended an independent investigation into atrocities against the community, in order to hold perpetrators accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Achieving peace in Wau State will require an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, repentance and forgiveness, the bishop said. It will also require \u201ca way for members of these communities to \u2018re-inform\u2019 themselves of their rich history of co-existence with a cultural logic that emphasizes sharing and equitable resource distribution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cas one people,\u201d He emphasized that the people of Greater Bahr El Ghazal should draw their strength from each other, saying \u201cYou have common humanity, heritage, history and you are socially interwoven. 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