27/04/2026
This was us in 1991.
Look closely, this is not just a picture.
This is pain. This is hunger. This is what war did to our people.
These are not strangers, they are us.
Our fathers. Our mothers. Our brothers and sisters.
People who once had dreams, reduced to survival.
They didn’t choose this life.
War chose it for them.
Division created it.
We cried. We suffered. We lost everything.
Some lost families, some lost hope, some lost their lives.
And now I ask you,
why are we slowly walking back into the same darkness?
Have we forgotten what it feels like to have nothing?
To sleep hungry?
To watch your own people suffer while you can do nothing?
Today, we have a chance they didn’t have,
a chance to choose peace.
A chance to choose unity over division.
But instead, we are turning against each other again.
Fighting not enemies, but ourselves.
Tell me,
do we really want our children to live this life again?
To sit on the ground like this, waiting for help that may never come?
War does not build a nation.
War does not bring dignity.
War only destroys, slowly, painfully, completely.
We are one people.
One nation. One future.
Open your eyes.
Remember where we came from.
And choose where we are going.
Because if we don’t learn from this,
we will be forced to live it again.
Tong Amiceng Tong ( Brother of 64 tribes)
