Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Tribal Violence Leads to More Killings

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/tribal-violence-south-sudan-kills-47-173801240.html

In South Sudan, around 47 people have been killed due to tribal violence. In 2005, South Sudan made a peace treaty with Khartoum to end the civil war, leading into the end of tribal and rebel violence killing at least 3000 people last year. Suddenly, the peace ended and violence broke out in Jonglei's state in December where the Lou Neur attacked their rivals the Murle tribe. Because of this, 2,000 people may have died. Not only this, but a youth milita from Murle tribe attacked Duk Padyet in Jongeli, killing mostly young children, women, and elderly people only in the Lou Neur tribe.

This relates to the statement "Violence leads to more violence" because once you start a riot there will always be other ones, especially against your rivals or enemies. When starting something offensive, there will always be a chance that there will be negative outcomes. Especially in something that offends and harms someone or in this case, a tribe. Because of the endless fighting between the tribes, they are certain that their will be deaths involved. In this article, "Violence leading into more violence" is exemplified by the Murle tribe retaliating and killing from young to old innocent people in the Lou Neur tribe-- the tribe that started the whole scene. Once something is started particularly with enemies, something will always be ended and fought the same way, even worse.

This article comes to show how corrupted our government and people are around the world. Using violence to get revenge or to express their anger? It's unfortunate how some people have this mindset of using violence and to contemplate harm towards others JUST to get back at them. It's wrong on many levels, and it's something the government and the people itself need, and must change. It's important to know how to deal with things and "fighting fire with fire" is in fact, a true statement because all it does is create a bigger fire, and in this particular case--death.