South Sudan Crisis and New Democratic tolerance

South Sudan Crisis and New Democratic tolerance. Attempting a Consolidation a Political History. Just five years ago as dawn unfolded on January 9 2011 millions of South Sudanese took the final steps on our seventy-year journey to independence. By barge and bus on animal and foot we came from the four corners of our homeland and beyond to stand in long lines under a hard sun so that our voices would be heard. And when the polling centers closed the world did hear us. It heard our shouts of joy; it heard our thankful songs and quiet prayers. Above all it heard the promise of an end to the crack of rifle and of the cry of mourning. Our bloody terrifying struggle with the Sudanese regime in Khartoum had come mercifully to an end. Now however came the difficult work of building our nation. We knew instinctively that a nation was more than a border and a government because for 70 years we had been shackled to something that was nothing more than a border and a government. In our own country we said our government would act for us and not against. Never again could an official or favored group simply take from us on a whim. And never again would any of us be treated as lesser than any other.