South Sudan’s Path To Change Requires Sacrifice

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(Pachodo.org) - We are engaged in a struggle for fundamental change, and we will not disband until the revolution is achieved — until we see meaningful change in political leadership and systems. Until our people live free from insecurity, corruption, injustice, poverty, and dictatorship.

Those willing to join us in this just and rightful cause must understand: we are in a revolution, not a social gathering. Revolution is not a tea party or dinner party. It is not a disco or nightclub. It is not a leisure activity. It is not comfortable, convenient, or easy.

Revolution is a long journey. It demands hard work, patience, and devotion. It is full of uncertainty, disruption, and cost. It requires personal sacrifice for national sovereignty and human dignity.

It demands individual commitment to place the country’s needs above personal comfort. It may require sacrificing peace and happiness, enduring hardship, and accepting risk for the nation’s future.

The revolution requires courage. It calls for sustained personal and collective effort, discipline, and sacrifice. It requires people who confront challenges directly and maintain solidarity, people who are working together with shared purpose, driven by conviction and hope for a better South Sudan. Real political change involves intense contestation. It carries risks for individuals and movements. So revolution demands significant sacrifice.

South Sudan needs total revolution, and we have chosen it. Certainly, revolution is not for those unwilling to make sacrifices for the public good. The process is uneven. It has highs and lows.

In revolution, we should expect opposition. There will be opportunism, attempts to sow division, and misinformation directed at our true and trusted revolutionary cadres and leaders. The regime we are fighting will use every available means to resist defeat and will try to divide us, as it has done before. Those we consider allies or comrades may turn away, as has happened in our ranks. Those we expected support from may remain silent, as we are experiencing now. These are realities we must be prepared to encounter on the path of revolution we have chosen.

In the face of these challenges, we must stay resolved. Those who want to exit the revolution, as some have done, let them go. Those who do not want to support us, as we have witnessed, leave them alone. A small group of committed cadres can achieve more than a large group without conviction.

We must not allow the change South Sudan needs to be derailed by superficial agreements that ignore the root causes of the Nation's problems, nor by the fake election the regime is pushing. We must remain principled and resist pressure to compromise core goals, whether from domestic or external actors.

We must remain committed not to trade the interests of the suffering majority for settlements that benefit a few. Even if our numbers remain small, let us act with clarity. We owe it to the people of South Sudan to stay uncompromising on their fundamental needs.

_"' we must choose sacrifice over silence. The revolution demands it,
and South Sudan deserves it."_

*By Major General John Sunday Martin*
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