Her små tre måneder før Sydsudans uafhængighed er håbet stadig stort - læst Sudan Tribune today:
"...Conducting sample interviews in the former provincial capital for Greater Bahr el Ghazal, Sudan Tribune met with predominantly young people who unanimously spoke the language of peace.
"We need peace. We do not need war. If there are people who need war then they have a challenge to explain why they are doing the opposite at the time the region desperately needs stability and development. I repeat we need peace not war," explained Mawien Baak, a former child soldier who left the southern army in 2006.
Baak said he was one of the minors who walked all the way from Bahr el Ghazal in 1987 to the border between Sudan and Ethiopia, where the former southern rebels had established training camps.
"I was one of the people and children who walked for nearly four months, all the way from the Bahr el Ghazal region to Ethiopia for training. One of the reasons why we walked such a long distance was not because of anything else. It was for peace and stability to prevail in the South. We wanted our people to be free from all sorts of treatments from the north. And it would be ridiculous to start fighting one another after having unanimously fought the war as a block. No. There must be peace," said Baak....."
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