منطقة اعالى النيل حساسه جدا لموقعها الجغرافى وزلك بسبب محازاتها لولايات & النيل الابيض & النيل الازرق &وجنوب كردفان مما يؤدى الى حدوث الكثير من المشكلات من حين الى اخر وتقل حدتهااو تزيد طبقاللتوجهات والمصالح السياسيه لمن يحكم اعالى النيل وفيما يتعلق بحكم المؤتمر الوطنى لتلك المنطقه الحساسه فان الامر يتوقف على الوالى ابن المنطقه الزى يجب عليه التوفيق بين التوجهات العامه لحزبه وبين تطلعات ابناء منطقته الزى هو جزء اصيل منهم
ان المطلب الاول لجماهير اعالى النيل اليوم هى الامن اولا واخيرا يليه متطلبات وضرورات الحياة الاخرى،لزا فانه يجب على ولاة المؤتمر الوطنى وضع خدمة وراحة ابناء جلدتهم فى المقام الاول اما ازا كان توجهاتهم وسياساتهم هى دعم وتشجيع الانفلات الامنى والتضييق على المواطنين من خلال عدم تقديم الخدمات الاساسيه لهم وزلك لخلق حاله من النفور وعدم الرضاء عن الحركه الشعبيه التى تقع عليها المسؤليه بحكم رئاستها لحكومة الجنوب فان تلك الافعال سوف لن تنطلى على جماهيرنا وستظل كالبقعه السوداء فى جباههم لزا فليترك كل من ياتى لحكم اعالى النيل بصمة تظل فى زاكرة الجماهير كانجاز له
اكيد نحن بحاجه الى خلق علاقات صداقه ومصالح مع من يجاوروننا من الولايات الاخرى مهما كانت نتيجة الاستفتاء القادم, ولكننا اولا واخيرا بحاجه الى خلق اجواء تسوده المحبه والاحترام فيما بيننا كجماهير اعالى النيل ومن ثم مع الاخرين

Abaey, could cause war between South and North sometime because adminitering that piece of southern land is critical issue between SPLM and NIP.
Think of Abey a small part of southern land and compare it to Upper Nile. Why is it important to SPLM to put Abaey control under SPLM administration while Upper Nile where Dr. John Garang, Lam and Rieck come is left to NIP administration.
Every citizen from Upper Nile needs the secret of leaving their twon to be rule by NIP from SPLM specially general secretary Pagan Amum whose relatives have no peace for which he fought for. If SPLM is not will to rectify that administrative problem now, truth will reveal itself in future. Malakal is sold and to remain in chaos and if any of its good citizen got killed, SPLM is not accountable as well as NIP.
Maybe becuase they shulluk did not take part in liberation war so now they should do to impose administrative protocol.
Again, people of neglected and sold part of South should voiced their dissatisfication with secrecy and the way their country being treated.
Long live for great Upper Nile. Your conservative standard had prevailed many foreigner penetrations and you again will stand current grievances.

Dear, Mr. William Okuch. I would personally like to comment on your phrase "Maybe becuase they shulluk did not take part in liberation war" first of all I think you should give respect to this website, since it's belong to the shilluk people, and secondly I don't understand which side are you on. It would be really appriciated if can be objective rather than subjective. Now let me come back to your statement, The liberation war was fought bye southerners regardless of their tribes, but if you want to isolate the Shilluk contribution in history of liberation war I can say that is a relentless and unnesecessary attack on the Shilluk people and the heroes from the Shilluk decendant. In other SPLA units there was more shilluk men than there was in Fashoda Battalion that was solely 1000 shilluk men with its own HQ. And as a matter of fact Shilluk was one of the only Tribes in souther Sudan that didn't fight this war against its fellow southerners alongside the Khartoum army, if that is your reasoning.

To be honestly, we the collo's people deserve the state.
These case will even actually solves the insecurity problems we are facing today in malakal "Labo Collo areas". There are very strange stories, that people don't believe it. It’s still going on today, especially in around Malakal areas. Sometimes they just come and attack people and destroy the what you plans to have for future, looting civilians and taking properties with them to the residenting destination. “I would like to say, we as SPLM and SPLA in our struggle during the past time, surely we committed many mistakes. We committed many mistakes and we are not ashamed to bow and apologize to the Southerners’ people and say to them ‘sorry.’ Forgive us for the mistakes we have committed. So that the Primitive’s people with guns would knew, we have opened the new site to begin.
Some of our neighbors are not faithful to our land. I remember! we are goig to supports the separation.
Thanks, Lwanyo Awang Padiet

Hi Mr. Michael Gwang Dak. Hope you okay.
Thank you for your reply to my short comment. I appreciate it.
But you might have misunderstood me if I'm right. I'm not saying Shulluk did not take part in war. Without Shulluk,it could have been difficult for SPLA/M to won a war against the enemy.
For centuries, Arabs in North did not neither govern to protect the people of South nor to impose prosperious programs in South, but to vandalize, confiscate and exterminate.
That why Southernershave voiced their dissatification and waged war for the good welfare of their own affiars which happened in 2005 by signing CPA.
I will ask you some few question Mr. Gwang. As you wrote, that
"that alomost more than 100 men fought in SPLA. For sure those heroes fought for the well being of their country.
But Gwang, is it not a mistake or even a treason against those Shulluk heroes such like you by allowing NIP to govern their mother land Malakal?
If SPLA/M govern Malakal as other souther provinces, I don't think the civilians who lost their lives in 2006,insecurity and chaos that happen in Malakal could not have had happen because SPLA/M emerged to protect.
So my is that since Shulluk fought to set South free, Malakal suppose to enjoy freedom and prosperity not to bear further grievances after war.
Other notification Mr. Gwang is telling me that I should respect the website since it belong to Shulluk. The fact is that, public access is for all. You might have good people and bad people to access it with different backgrounds and cultures. But still we can not dictate them that they deserve not to express their opinons. My advice to you you do not expect words from different people. But give good correction if you really put yourself superior or take the good writings and ignor bad ones.
Agains, you asked me that,"which side I'm on". I wonder if you mean am I from SPLM or from other party or other tribe. I that what you mean?
If so please correct yourself. Party doesn't exist before the community. SPLA/M, SSIM and other movements did not emerged before community. They came into existing because there are community of South.
There is no village with out family and there is no party withou village. Consequently, famlies and village establish any movement or party and since they are accountable for such institutionalization of political entity, they are therefor athe backbone of parties and in any conflict, villagers pay heavy prices.
Families, villagers give everything they could in their power to help movement success.
Let me my comarade assure you of the reality. Remember in Anya-ANYA ONE. Shulluk people were massacred in Warajowk and in many places. Those who were killed were not men and women in uniform, but simply ordinary and innocent civilians. Do you know why such incident occurred? Simply because they are ANYA-ANA ONE too. The enemy knew very well that without those villagers, ANYA-ANYA could not stand.
One more thing to let remember if you like is that, power emanates from people and that power is everlasting. But if power comes from politicians, that power goes with them. So SPLM POWER is from people and therefore, do not ask any single person from South to where he/she belong.
In shortly, please if you are in uniform or civilian official in either party in south, do not differentiate or discriminate one people by trying to classify them. Your enemy is mind and mind is your.
Share with me and with the people of MALAKAL, the pains and grievances impose UPPER Nile people because they are left with government which is not their government. Rise your vocie by trying to get out Malakal administration from NIP and give over to SPLA/M which fought for it well being.
I'm for now very okay in talking with you and I'm so happy to do that for more time. Let not to be enemy, but comarade searching for conflict resolution, Let join and be one of voice to speak for those who do not speak for themselves in Malkal.

First of all, I think the response be base on who are real belongers of Upper Nile State, because the invaders are enjoying the privilege of their leadership, for the pain and agony and affliction ordinary people are experiencing in Malakal twon did not faced them because they are protected by the system that governed the state.
Second point, who suppose to respond, is it citezen or political leaders. I am too worried if it demand citezens to respond it will be impossible because they living under threat of being eliminated by invaders who support NIF government during the war era, and they the same people who govern the state now. Collo was told that peace did not come for them, and other community want to take Malakal as their terrority.Do not assume that there will be political leader who will raise the issue to the level of decision making because of sensitivity of issue, for they will be regard as tribalize minded person. Therefore, for poltical gain no one will speak about the matter occuring in Malakal.
Thirdly, ironically SPLA might have regarded Malakal as terrority of NIF because during the struggle, they were most notorous militias who support NIF government in Khartoum to distablize SPLA in Malakal. This is why NIF government was able to drill oil in Benitue amd Paloj.
Fourthly, it will be very difficult for people of Malakal to respond positively because of being very suspicious about the agenda of both parties in Malakal.
Fiveth the only way to make people to respond to issue strongly, Malakal state must be decentralize again and let Nasir be state by itself and people who belong to Jongelei must leave to their state, without considering the last point no body will respond to the quest raise by our brother Lwanyo Awang

In the NCP we do have Collo leaders, why they are ignored by the party if the party doesn’t have another agenda? Therefore, one may not be surprised about what is going on in the Upper Nile State and around. The security and safety of the people should be the first priority of the governor of the state and his cabinet. And if the governor who is from NCP failed to do his duty, which is protecting people of the state, then where is the SPLM leaders’ role? Why don’t they speak out nor do something to protect the people whom they lead. How do they convince this people that they are leaders if they don’t stand up for them in such time like this? The leaders of the SPLM party and other parties in the Upper Nile should have stood up and discussed these insecurity matters in the state, if they are really concerned about this people. But to me, it seems that some of the SPLM leaderships are in co-operation with the NCP party to let the people of Upper Nile suffer from robbery, looting and murdering. In fact, these kinds of things obviously are intended to frighten and terrify people not to speak out their concerns. And what makes one surprise mostly, is the absent of Collo leaders’ role. We all know that Collo people are the target of this move, so in my opinion, Collo must take an action to protect themselves from these barbarian acts. We can not be victim and sacrificial all the time in order to keep the unity of the southerners. And last, how do the people of Upper Nile State response positively to the issues that matter them if they are still living in fear, while other states are in peace?

Thank you all brothers for your encouraging discussion. I what to remind you something that people possess ligitimately moral power to elevate politicians to power and to move them from power.
In doing so, there are usually prices to be paid when people castigate their government or invaders. But those prices are temporary than continuous grievances which you, your sons and your grandsons could do.
It is a sacred sacrificial to defend future of the forthcoming generation.
My suggestions for Collo to overcome challenges facing this wonderful people are:
1- Let break through a wall between poors and riches, a wall between educated and illiterate people, a wall between people of this area and that area. Why? Because each one of those social classes constitute power they play in contribution for the goodness of Collo community.
2- Termination of following manner, in other word, each one should be creative rather than following others. Such attitude show self-submission by assuming that nothing one could do for others.
Ask yourself. What about your name if that name has no position in Collo and southern community if your busy yourself following others. It is not bad anyway to follow the others and to take their opinons, but make sure they have good agenda and good opinon for community.
I urge you brothers and sisters, let start by doing what worthy for this community from where you are. Do good to yourself and to people around you.Little you could offer has its redemption to this community. Lord Jesus asked for less than more that" any little you do for His brothers and sisters you do it for Him" and that little is too great. Remeber, Jesus brothers and sisters are those who are suffering. So your community who are in vulnerability are the one who are Jesus's brothers.
Say something, do something for the benefit of needy and God will bless you for that.

Hi Brothers!
It is good to talk about the insecurity of our mather land(piny collo).
But, we have foregotten what is bringing these problems to us, just
I would to asks the shilluk community(buru collo)one Question.
Is it the disunity which make people to be stronge or the unity that make people binding and stronge force?.
second to that what make your enemies to fear you?.
If unity, are we united?, to answer this question,
please let us come and assesse tne sitaution of shilluk (collo)both political and socially if we are real unity, but if not, how do we people expect to be feared by those communities who are causing problems to piny collo?
My advice to entiry collo community all over the world.
To improve security situation in our mother land atleast we need to leave our political and socail difference and forcast on the security of our land.But if nothing can change itself at all.
thanks
this your David at national defence university of Ethiopia.
and can be reache by this Email.
dayik2005@yahoo.com

Good point brother let us keep the hope of unity among Collo. But let me add this to your contribution, of course there is no perfect communnity on earth, world wide every community has it differences and wise ones do have differnces,but at the same time they have union of purpose regardless who make his/her way to power and I think that's what we are missing now.

Now, definetely, we are facing insecurity in our own state,in addition of being out in GOSS in first time in South Sudan history.And of course HE.President of GOSS is part of problem as he's part of solution.

But also our politicians have personal responsibility, because they were there in that meetings during the allocation of government positions and they didn't choose or ask for them selves expecting to be given or awarded as if they are not part of that nation.

This is my assumption, prove me wrong, and for public Records give names of candidates which were proposed to President Salva, to assume positions in GOSS and they were turn down by the president !!!!

Our politicans need to deal with reality that nothing course shame to their personalitites if they talk about the representation of their people or constituencies in government like other ethnic in South Sudan. Why ethnic matters to us and it dosen't to others? Who is on the right truck? we or them? who si benefiting from country resources? we or them? etc and the list goes on !!!!

It is very wonderful for Collo sons and daughters to have these constructive discussions on their favourite site PACHODO.Org. First of all thanks to Lwanyo Awang for the article, which had resulted in all these reactions. I would contribute with two points; one is about the NCP (by the way it is national congress not conventional party) and the splm. In principal NCP like any other party is suppose and has the right to preach its principles and pursue supporters from among the public anywhere in the Suda. So for me what realy matters is the SPLM to organize itself and work hard through democratic meas to convince the public to adhere to its principles and values (which we know are geniuinely for the poor and the opressed in the Sudan). Regretably enough these principles and values were brought under test in Upper Nile state many times, and unfortunatelly the SPLM have been constantly failling the tests (There many examples that can be qouted, but not now...). So we should not blame the NCP but ourselves. However I totally agree with all that people should be cautious and should be watching out constantly such that we are able to correct mistakes and relaunch accordingly otherwise we will be taken by surprise when real comes to real...The other point is about ourselves as Collo in Upper Nile state (ofcourse we are only here in this state unlike the nuers and the dinka). It is very crucial that we always reflect on past, present and look to the future of our being in this beloved state of Upper Nile. It is true that we have been affected negatively by actions of other people but it is also very true that we also contributed in a way or other to our sufferings. It is not always good to continously be puuting blames on others without reflecting on where you went wrong and where you did good. In conclusion I am comming to agree with those who thinks that if we dont come to our concious and joint hands, we will be always regresting being sidelined and marginalized when it comes to big decisions which some times shape our future and touch our existance and being as a tribe. Let us continue these types of discussion and God bless you all...