29/04/2025
STATEMENT REFUTING THE ATTEMPT TO SOW HATRED BETWEEN NUER AND EQUATORIANS
Fellow citizens of South Sudan,
It is with a heavy yet determined heart that I write to strongly condemn and reject the malicious and deceptive tactics being employed by certain elements within the current SPLM-led regimeâparticularly those within the Dinka political establishmentâwho are shamelessly using individuals like Martin Elia Lomuro as mouthpieces to advance a dangerous âdivide and ruleâ agenda. This agenda seeks to drive a wedge between the Nuer and our Equatorian brothers and sistersâa strategy that reeks of desperation, fear of unity, and moral bankruptcy.
Let it be known that the Nuer community sees through this strategy and categorically rejects any narrative or insinuation that we hold hatred or hostility towards our Equatorian compatriots. We are not blind to the fact that for years now, the SPLM systemâheavily dominated by a small clique of Dinka elitesâhas used manipulation, tribal favoritism, state violence, and propaganda to pit South Sudanese communities against one another in order to retain power and escape accountability for the national suffering they have caused.
Equatorians have suffered land grabbing, political marginalization, and cultural erosion under this system. So have the Nuer, whose towns and villages have been razed, whose youth have been slaughtered in pogroms like the Juba massacre of December 2013, and whose leaders and intellectuals have been targeted or silenced. Rather than divide us, this shared pain should and must unite us.
We know that Martin Elia Lomuro does not speak for the people of Central, Eastern, or Western Equatoria. He speaks for the political survival of a system that has looted our nation's wealth, mortgaged our future, and trampled on our collective dignity. His recent statements are not a reflection of Equatorian sentimentâthey are a reflection of the regimeâs fear of the unity that is beginning to rise among the oppressed 63 tribes of South Sudan.
We the Nuer people extend our hand of solidarity and peace to the Equatorians. We honor your sacrifices. We respect your ancestral lands, your cultures, your struggle for justice and autonomy. We know you are not our enemy. Our enemy is the corrupt ideology of tribal supremacy and state capture that has crippled our nation since its independence.
Now more than ever, we must reject tribalism and political manipulation in all its forms. We must speak to each other directly as communities and build alliances based on truth, justice, and mutual respectânot through the lies of those who have no interest in peace.
To the youth of the Equatoria region and the youth of the Nuer nation: our liberation will not come through divisionâit will come through unity. Let us work together to build a South Sudan that belongs to all its peoples, where no tribe rules over another, and where justice is not determined by ethnicity but by the law and the will of the people.
Let us not allow the oppressors to rewrite our history or dictate our future. Their time is ending. Ours is just beginning.
United we stand, divided we fall
Regards
Abraham Gatkuoth Gatdor
Guit County-Unity State
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