     MOORYAAN | Monday, January 22, 2001 - 01:26 pm
this is the english version....
translated from a letter sent to Osman yare in Waajid.
a new manifesto is in circulation all over the nation.
I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of warlord authority, because I believe the warlord has deliberately prolonged the suffering of my people and the tribal hatred.
I am a mooryaan, convinced that I am acting on behalf of every other mooryaan. I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defending my tribe folks and liberating my city from others, has now become a war of division and conquest.I cannot tolerate the division and carving on this poor nation of ours.
I believe that the purposes for which I and my fellow gangs entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
I believe that we, the young technicals of my tribe should listen to our traditional elders and follow their wisdom.
I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops; innocent civilians and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends, which I believe to be evil and unjust.
I am not protesting against the conduct of the warlords, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting young men are being sacrificed.
On behalf of those who are suffering now I make this protest against the deception which is being practiced on them; also I believe that I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those with the warlords regard the continuance of agonies which they do not share, and which they have not sufficient imagination to realize. |
