Dear friends, ex-colleagues, dear all, Having shared information with few colleagues starting in 1999, just after the crisis in 1998, until today, i ended up sharing information, daily, to 752 persons involved or interested in South Sudan, this beside my own work until i came what i call home o 25th of September 2016, exactly 1 year ago today..
An old friend sent me a mail, few months ago, to inform me that, on this day, he had received exactly 75,000 emails from me, that is 75,000 times going thru the web, cut/copy/paste/send etc... After 18 years as a social worker in a very big european city working with street kids and young adults, mainly females, and a new life with 32 years spent in the South of Sudan then South Sudan, I feel a bit tired. I don't want to become a bitter old man, while i cannot avoid to become more and more grumpy. My South Sudanese friends, my former "friends" or working relations like Riek Machar, Salva Kiir, Paul Malong, John Garang (who didn't live to see what is taking place) and many others who became generals or ministers, or both, and who, over 90% of them, were spoiled by power, money and greed, will continue the struggle without me. I don't judge them, maybe some of them, as I believe no country had avoided one or several bloodshed civil wars: starting with mine, whose bloody one in 1789 was a very bloody business indeed, and recently in Kosovo and other places, that should prevent the westerners to bully or lecture the South Sudanese. Unlike when I started my Google Group, now, practically every NGO or UN base has his good enough connection to the internet. Most humanitarian workers will not accept to work in the field without it. Long gone are the days when there was no other connections than our HF radio and that 6 months were spent in the bush without contacts other than radio messages. It is a very different world now and the humanitarian workers are a different kind as well. So, after 40 years dealing with very often difficult human beings, and i know quite well about them, being one of them, i am now spending time with animals, who are called beasts, while the real beasts are not them. I spent time as well with my grand children and their friends and with nature that we are all busy to destroy. My only bitterness, if any, has been to witness for 32 years the mistakes repeated by the big powers, the donors, almost all of them not understand anything, and pretending to have the solutions. The CPA in 2005 was an unfinished business, the follow up an unbelievable amateur and irresponsible mess, the follow up of 2011 another one, but enough of all this. So, after this too long email, I wish you the best, courage and everything you aspire to. Farewell, e j (not her/his real name as they say in the news -:) PS : I have to say that it took me some days to decide to stop my group. I did it in 2011, in November, and resumed after 3 days following pressure from many of you. But, by then, I was actively involved, not anymore. And July 2016 started to tickle my brains as i could not run as surely as in 1990 in Jonglei, but that is history. -- To post to this group, send email to southsudankob@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to SouthSudanKob@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14optqMGGY%3DXsGPEfVWjAe2dy1v789VqcsKMkfu%2BDrUucCA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.