Public
safety in Sudan borders on atrocious. The government, frequently bought to look
aside and be blind to the mass murders, rapes and pillaging of its people done
by terrorist Arab foreigners. After decades of conflict, South Sudan became a
newly independent country on July 9, 2011. Civil war aftereffects continue to
plague Sudan, while the Sudanese government fails to provide adequate public
safety to all of its citizens against terrorist attacks by ignoring the
increasing violence between opposing political parties and African/Arab ethnic
conflicts. “Violence should define the perpetrators not the victims. This is
the truth that our patriarchal society has continued to ignore since the
beginning of time. Prevention happens through
leadership and education.”
South
Sudan is an Eastern country in Africa that borders alongside countries such as
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan
and Uganda. South Sudan depends largely on imports of goods, services, and
capital from the north, which causes a great disadvantage to them. On Jan 9,
2005, after three years of negotiations, a peace deal was reached between the
southern rebels, led by John Garang of the SPLA, and the Khartoum government,
ending Africa’s longest-running civil war. Two weeks after Garang was sworn in
as first vice president as part of the power sharing agreement, he was killed
in a helicopter crash during bad weather. Rioting erupted in Khartoum, killing
nearly a hundred locals. Garang’s deputy, Salva Kiir was sworn in, both North
and South Sudan swore to keep the peace agreement.
In
late July 2013, President Kiir, fired his vice president Riek Machar, he
claimed the move was to funnel out corruption and abuse of power, but many
suspected it was to gain dictatorial power of the region. Ex Vice president
Machar and his supporters dubbed President Kiir a dictator, with this
declaration many political unrest unfolded for months to come.
Mass
Murder
Why
does countries like Sweden and Norway have low death-violence correlations? One
important factor includes the way these countries deal with public safety
regulations and laws concerning its citizens. South Sudan’s government severely
lacks the proper security to the Sudanese locals. Public safety in Sudan
haven’t been at its best especially in cities like Darfur with hundreds of
bloody body counts.
The
Victim Cycle
One
day while on YouTube I randomly clicked on a video titled, “Violence against
women-it’s a men’s issue.” The first point I should note at, it’s ironic that
someone else’s opinion may influence a person away from their original position
or the person may share the same exact sentiments as their own. The bold
statement declared in the video immediately awed me by how well the person
explained their view on the topic discussed. The statement was made in regards
to violence towards women and how women shouldn’t be harassed by their peers
after a report of abuse, but be put under a veil of protection by society,
because they are in fact the victims. These abused women shouldn’t be the ones
to have shame, guilt or disgust cast upon them because they couldn’t stop what
happened.
Instead
societies’ glare should focus on the horrible perpetrators of the crime. In
many societies in the world the patriarchal system rules above all else, men
have many times been placed in positions of absolute power. That in turn have
caused catastrophic events for lesser members of society, women at the mercy of
abusive men or the poor at the hands of the elite rich. First nation societies
do not need to nitpick and degrade third world nations based on how much
corruption they face, but learn to cooperate together as a human family. On a world scale Sudan must seem like a
dissolute inhospitable place, where only the corrupt and inhuman go to cause
their horrible deeds. But in reality Sudan’s just like any other country
dealing with its human rights issues. Having the same challenges of any
developing country plus the frustrations of independence from North Sudan,
South Sudan must learn to adapt in order to see further progress.
The
Solutions
What
happens within another countries’ borders isn’t just that countries’ affairs
anytime a violation has occurred in a citizens’ human rights. No longer is it
“their issue” but it spawns into global affairs. Violence is a human rights
issue. And we, the citizens of the world, must find a solution to this disastrous
deadly problem. Laws should define a clear line between tradition and custom
from a human rights violation. Violence and abuse is a worldwide problem and
come in many forms.
To
an extent every single nation on Earth have corruption, and since Western
countries such as Sweden, Norway and Canada have a reduced governmental, public
and local corruption scale, shouldn’t we, in these first world countries do
something about this world wide problem? Since many nations throughout the
world have some sort of dominant society in place, like all other times, those
dominants in society have the upper hand, oppression of the least powerful
group is not far behind. That dominant group, men usually, expresses unwritten
laws on sexism, racism, and sexual preference by bigotry, religious intolerance
and many likewise narrow mindedness which causes internal decaying of a country
in conflict. The powerful majority shape morals first. Then status quos are put
into place. This is how oppression begins to work.
In
addition, the only way to prevent future abuse from occurring is through
actions of leadership and education by those same societies. Overall, victim
blaming those unfortunates gives those in power a figurative “get out of jail
free card”. When looking at all aspects of the equation by reducing the
numerous victim bashing, the society at large can begin placing much needed
assigned fault on the perpetrators of the crime. Furthermore, this statement generates
such strong emotions within me, because these same sentiments could be used for
other conflicts a nation similar to South Sudan may face, such as rampant
poverty, lack of infrastructure, low grade health care and education.
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