South Sudan at Heart

Insects  are small but very dangerous species. By: Abraham Daljang Maker, Kampala Uganda. It is about a month now since I heard annoying rhetoric from the President of Sudan when #South Sudan took over oil field of Panthou known as #Heglig. The statement has been haunting me all these times until I thought of some instances were people used offensive words which latter boomeranged.   Being a very good verbal attacker who does not think twice before uttering out words; Omar al Bashir made an exasperating statement by calling people of south Sudan as insects that needed to be removed. Judging by his pronouncement, you would think that Bashir would in no minute turn the whole of south Sudan into an ocean and erased the people away from this earth. Having grown in the bush, I was not so much scared by his statement because the words are not so unusual to me since he uses them always during the twenty years of conflict. Despite all his scary voice, SPLA was able to c...