Reparations
- Nyabuoy Gatbel
- Jun 16, 2024
- 2 min read
The government of South Sudan should compensate its population with a financial payment to compensate for the pain, humiliation and poverty created by the many civil wars and from the legacy of the Arab slave trade that existed from 650 century A.D to the 1900s, and was estimated that ten to eighteen million people were enslaved. The slave trade occurred across the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Sahara desert. Our political, economic and societal instability is rooted in the unhealed traumas inherited from the Arab slave trade and the various colonial invasions and many holocausts committed against our population since then.
Reparation is defined as ‘’payment for harm, loss, or damage that has been caused to a person or an organization, or the fact of making such a payment,‘’ according to the Cambridge Dictionary. In a political sense, we are owed reparations for the racial injustices, abuses, and discrimination we faced under the Arab slave trade and the Khartoum, Sudan government before becoming an independent state. The injustices we have endured need to be compiled in a collective file and go to court with our abuses to reparate our ongoing plight.
Our current population is 11.4 million, according to 2021 statistics from the United Nations Population Fund. That population needs proper reparations and justice from their current government to remove years of stagnancy generationally, economically, politically and societally. We will spend a week in November 2021 to dissect the injustices we have faced to conclude how much our abusers owe us.
In conclusion, the South Sudanese people are owed reparations by their current government and former government under their administrative practices during colonialism. The future of the state rests on a compensated and healed population that can adequately serve the state in return.
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