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    Cries in the Wilderness
    Cries in the Wilderness
    Cries in the Wilderness
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    Cries in the Wilderness

    By Morris Yoll

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    Since its independence in 1956, The Sudan is a nation riddled with wars, human rights abuses, and man-made catastrophes. The first civil war in The Sudan started in 1955, a year before The Sudan got its independence in 1956. Eventually, the first civil war ended in 1972, but the second civil war started in 1983 between the north northern Sudan ruling regimes and marginalized areas of The Sudan that include southern Sudan (now an independence country, The Republic of South Sudan), the Nuba Mountains, the Blue Nile, the Ingassana Hills, and Darfur.
    Even after civil war between southern Sudan and northern Sudan ended in 2005, the civil war in The Sudan still flares in the rest of the marginalized areas of the Sudan: the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darfur. And as matter of fact, even in an independent South Sudan, the war is still ongoing and so is the human suffering in the two Sudans.
    The last civil war in The Sudan, which was mainly fought in southern Sudan, the Numba Mountains, and Blue Nile regions, killed 2.5 plus million and has caused un-quantified lost of properties and as well has inflicted tremendous indignities, suffering and human right abuses on all southern Sudanese as people.
    It is an unbecoming human’s sufferings and human right abuses, committed against innocents in The Sudan, which prompted me to write these poems from experiences and from true stories of war and sufferings told by South Sudanese who have experienced grime human’s sufferings due to the civil war in The Sudan. Nearly, all South Sudanese were affected by the last twenty years old civil war and their stories drop tears.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMorris Yoll
    Release dateJan 15, 2016
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      Cries in the Wilderness - Morris Yoll

      Preface

      The Sudan acquired independence in 1956. Yet it continues to be riddled with haunting nightmares of Human Rights Abuses and Civil Wars.

      During The Sudan’s most recent civil war (1983 – 2005), I found myself focusing on the destruction caused by war.

      This war took place between 1983 and 2005 when the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was finally signed.

      As a consequence, the brutalities of this civil war incurred a cost of over 2.5 million lives!

      All forms of human rights abuses were committed by Sudanese Regimes in the following regions: South Sudan, Numba Mountains, Ingessana Hills, Blue Nile, and Darfur.

      All events took place under the watchful eyes of the International Community!

      In general, the civil war in South Sudan inflicted unimaginable indignities and suffering upon the people; subsequently, nearly all the people of South Sudan lost unquantifiable properties. These atrocities ranged from:

      slavery; scorched earth warfare; depopulation of villages; raiding, looting and razing of villages; rape and abduction of women and children as booties of war; massacre and summary execution of innocents; pillaging and looting of properties, and so on.

      In South Sudan, civil war has continued to flare even after South Sudan achieved its independence from The Sudan. On December 15th, 2013 a failed coup attempt led to the civil war that is still being contested by the government forces and rebels that are fighting against the government of South Sudan. Hence, there is enormous human suffering within the two Sudans.

      Personal History

      My father was an elementary school teacher in the ‘50s. Later in the 60s he joined Anyanya-I, the first rebellion in South Sudan that fought against the Sudanese regime in quest of greater autonomy in The Sudan. My father’s involvement in Anyanya-I caused our family to become a target.

      As a young child I witnessed the beatings of my sister and stepmother as well as any other people who just happened to be in our house during the raids in search of my father. Hence, after my father joined the rebellion, our family fled to the village immediately. I was born during The Sudan’s first civil war in the 60s, so I was a small child when my family fled to the village. Even after the move, the government soldiers and security agents constantly traveled from Gogrial town to terrorize our family in Wunlach village in Twic County. Without warning, we would occasionally be attacked by soldiers, informants, and security personnel who showed up in our village.

      I saw soldiers slaughtering our bulls, taking our cows away, and tearing down houses in the Ataddaw village to re-use the wood or thatch as fuel for roasting their looted kill.

      Finally, the seventeen years of struggle ended in 1972 when the Addis Ababa Agreement was signed. But again, in 1983 I experienced The Sudan’s second civil war.

      From this experience I witnessed and lived with the brutality and injustices of war, and not only in The Sudan. I have also experienced human cruelty, brutality, and injustice of war in Liberia.

      Twice I was caught in the Liberian Civil War. I was first caught in Liberia from 1989 to 1990 and then again in 1992 when I returned to Liberia to pursue my university studies in Monrovia, Liberia.

      So I WAS THERE...

      ...in Monrovia, 1989, when people were killed in the UNDP compound. In fact, I was one block away from the Lutheran Church in 1989 when a massacre took place. I heard people screaming in the night when soldiers entered the Lutheran Church and killed hundreds of refugees inside.

      ...on the morning after that horrible night in the Lutheran Church, I saw people being chased down and killed on the road and along the beaches of the ocean in Monrovia.

      ...in 1992 when Charles Taylor’s men - about 25 thousand - stormed Monrovia in hopes of capturing the capital city. I was there.

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