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The Desertion Of Dinka Ruweng Of Abiemnom County In Sudan.

This Ethnic Dinka Group Mainly lives in Ruweng Region close to Twic, Nuer, Abyei and Panaruu. Their county is normally Abiemnom and they are from Unity State Province.

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Everything has a cause of it. As we know that when we are encountered ourselves in a danger, we definitely think twice and twice in order to find a way to escape from the incidences. But, as we do it so to leaves or freed ourselves from the inconveniences, what are the most important things in which people should have to think about when leaving their lovely land? Simply, there are a lot of things people have to think about it. For example, people have to think about their beautiful land, natural resources such as petroleum, oil and even water as well as other resources such as uranium, copper and many other more just to mention few. Remember that sometimes, if you lost those things mentioned above especially the land, you may also lost your Identity as well as you leaves your own land. But, however, Dinka Ruweng Commuity of Abiemnom County in Unity State, is the same like the one who lost its special place and its natural resources. Indeed, some people think that Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom become unpopular and merely seems to lost its Identity name Ruweng.

Yes, it might be true especially to those who have no more clues about this community so call Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom in Unity State Province, Bentiu. As a matter of fact, it is not very challenge full although people said that Dinka Ruweng is from Mayom County of Nuer-Bul. Other people said that they are from Dinka Jok-Ngok of Abyei County, while some people said that they are from Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng County. Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom County in Unity State is just an Ethnic community within the center of an oilfield. Its county is Abiemnom, but sometimes people do call it as Biemnom which is the most common names to those who know it perfectly. In details, non of these people can't be blamed for the actually facts of saying that because they have no more instrumental clues or backgrounds about this Ethnic Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom County in Unity State. In general views, however, Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, are entirely disassociated in those Counties being mentioned above. What happened and the reason why Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom is not known as it use to be in 1960 until 1982, was because of the intensive war which the Northern Government of Sudan carried out in Ruweng Region of Abiemnom before the Late General KERUBINO KUANYIN BOL DENG from Audeeng in Twic area, fired arms on May 16Th,1983 in Mading-Bor Town.

Why Arabs fought and waged the second war in Ruweng Region of Abiemnom County in 1982 after the initiated the first war in 1969 in Ngol-Kou of Ruweng Abiemnom when the Late Former President Jafaar Nimeiri took Power in Khartoum and brought up what is call the Sharia Law? Because Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom and Jok-Ngok Abyei,fought with Miseriya for consecutive of 12 years. That times, there was a collaboration between Arabs and Jok-Ngok Abyei in which Chief Deng Kuol Arop Biong, agreed to accept the Miseriya to be the native or indigenous of Dinka Jok-Ngok Abyei. So there, the Arabs in Northern Sudan built up their fate on this Ethnic Dinka Ruweng group from Abiemnom(Biemnom)County because the resisted from accepting Sharia protocols that was signed by the Late Former president Jafaar Nimeiri which entitled everyone in Sudan to be Muslims whether from South, West, East and Northern Sudan. But,fortunately, the Ruweng Dinka of Abiemnom's Chief, Mr Camilo Kuot Kur, denounced that his people from Ruweng Region refused to rely themselves to be Muslims as well as the Chief Miakuei Bilkuei of Dinka Panaruu Ethnic does the same. That is why the Northern Government from Khartoum sent their troops to Ruweng of Abiemnom and killed Ruweng Abiemnom's Chief Camilo Kuot Kur, in 1982. Camilo Kuot Kur, the Chief of Ruweng, was a great hero and a valor in his Ministry. He didn't runs anywhere, but he exactly died in Abiemnom Town of Ruweng. The other one, was when the oil was discovered by British Authority in Unity State in 1976. As the oil was found by the British Authority in Heglig (Aliiny) of Ruweng Abiemnom, the Northern Government of Sudan started sending their troops to Ruweng Abiemnom County of Dinka Ruweng in order to empowered and secured the strategic main oilfield.
As the war continued, both Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom and Dinka Jok-Ngok of Abyei, were ironically defeated by the Arabs Miseriya because during that times, Arabs use guns and ammunitions to fight, while both two Ethnic Dinkas use their spears to fought enemies.

So,as the Arabs defeated these two Ethnic Dinkas groups, they occupied both two territories areas of Ruweng and Jok-Ngok of Abyei. Then there,the fighting escalated and continued leaving thousands of people in Ruweng Region of Abiemnom(Biemnom) and Jok-Ngok Abyei in lifeless. As a result,Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom deserted to many places as there was a resentment or a discord between Arabs Miseriya and the Dinka Ethnic groups when Arabs in the Northern Government in Khartoum declared what is called "Jihad War or Holy War" on these two Dinkas Ethnic groups before it reachs all over in Southern Sudan. This mainly transpired in Ruweng Region of Abiemnom town in 1982 when Arabs besieged some of the Ruweng villages and swamps. At first, the controlled Ajangnga and Weraghor swamps of Ruweng were every civilians of Dinka Ruweng use to go and drew water for their domestic use. Since Arabs find it that the whether was very nice to them and even to their animals as well, they started coming a long to other places such as Rum'angoon village and Agaara village as well as Kolchoor village of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom County. The Arabs or Miseriya were really influenced by an awesome whether and started building up and unified themselves with Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, but, unfortunately, Ruweng Chief and his Assistants rejected their union intermingling assimilation to become as an auxillery Ethnic group to Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom. That happened when the Chief Deng Kuol Arop Biong of Jok-Ngok Abyei still not deceased. When Arabs Miseriya find that the Paramount Chief Camilo Kuot Kur of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom County neglected them, they commenced going back to Jok-Ngok of Abyei and definitely, Deng Kuol Arop Biong accepted them to be Jok-Ngok of Abyei's residents. That was happened in 1959 four years forward when Anyanya 1 took up arms and fought with the Northern Khartoum Government.

On March,17 1972, Anyanya 1 under Joseph Lango and William Deng Nhial plus other Anyanya 1 Generals including Abuur Matuong, Abdullah Chuol Deng and Gai Tut just to mention fews, signed the peace agreement with the Northern Khartoum Government in Addis-Ababa, the capital City of Ethiopia. Under the signing peace agreement, Southern Sudan was thought to be independent and ruled themselves, but since the Northern Khartoum Government were very cunning enough, the played a down low cool-war in which the bribed some others Southern Sudanese in order to disbanded the peace acceleration and the demands of the peace as well. As a result, William Deng Nhial from Rek, Tonj City, was killed by anonymou people in Southern Sudan and therefore, Joseph Lango relinquished and went to London.

Then by the year 1981, Anyanya 2 under Abdullah Chuol Deng and other generals such as Akuot Atem and Bul Mawaan, gathered in a Ruweng Abiemnom County as their Garison town and a center for Anyanya 2 revolution Guerrilla. Jafaar Nimeiri, as a president of Sudan, sent his troops in order to expelled and pulverized Anyanya 2 Regime in Ruweng Region of Abiemnom. Because of this, the Arabs occupied Abiemnom county of Dinka Ruweng when Anyanya 2 regimes were dislodged by the Khartoum Authority forces in 1983. Between 1982 and 1983, Ruweng Region of Abiemnom County was still being dwelled and inhabited by the Ruweng people of Abiemnom civilians. But in 1984, Ruweng Region of Abiemnom become the battle field and totally it was ravaged by the war carried out by the SPLA and Arabs forces when oil was known by the Southern Sudan Government(SPLM/SPLA) to be there in Ruweng Region of Heglig(Aliiny) of Abiemnom County. Consequently, Dinka Ruweng of the Chief Kuot Kur Kuot, diverged to different locations in which some of them run to Bhar-el-ghazel, other run to Panaruu, while some of them settled in Nuer-Bul of Mayom County, Jikany and Leek as well as other find their own way to Khartoum for survival. It was really a big tragic history to divulged this Dinka Ruweng Ethnic group of Abiemnom as the first community in Southern Sudan to experienced such traumatization of the war jeopardies and the consequencies alleged in the war as a whole.

On the other hand, they are the last community in Southern Sudan to be considered as a social community because of the choas by which other communities tried to annexed them from Unity State because they are smallest in sub-clans. It happened when the Late Dr John Garang de Mabior, went to Agok village of Ngok, Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom were thwarted by the other communities in order to come and meet with their leader, but fortunately, when the Late Dr John Garang de Mabior, saw them being prevented by the other communities from coming forward to the meeting, he asked a question as such, "Who are this community being thwarted from coming to the meeting"? Definitely, people said that they are Dinka Ruweng Ethnic of Abiemnom. As the Late Dr John Garang de Mabior heard it that they are Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, he said that from today until onward, Abiemnom is a county and a center of Ruweng. There, Dr John Garang De Mabior, awared the audiences in the meeting that Abiemnom Town of Ruweng was the first center where the Government of Northern Sudan situated the Federal Bank in 1969 before the moved to Khartoum. In such speech which the Late Dr John Garang had given to the audiences in the meeting, some communities rised their complaint and become weired as a result of hosting Abiemnom to be the main center of Ruweng.

The fact is that, since this community so called Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom lives near the basin of oilfield, there are a lot of disparties from the other sub-Dinkas and non-Dinkas tribes as to why some of these communities wants to divested and prevaricated the actually Identity of Dinka Ruweng in Abiemnom to be not considered as an indigenous people of Ruweng in Abiemnom. Ruweng Dinka of Abiemnom are well known by the whole communities in Southern Sudan despise that the war in Southern Sudan exterminated this community so badly that they are seems not well known, but their time will come later on and they will enjoyed their freedom life. There is a saying said that "hardship life turned to a divine or a wonderful life". Maybe sometime it will happen in that way. Indeed, what is not known from this community so call Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, is that they are the most transparent and valued community in Southern Sudan. They have never mingled themselves with any atrocities. Their culture diversity is the same as it was and they believed in one God.

Approximately,97% are Christains whereby majorities of them are Catholic, then the others are Episcopal and so forth. As mentioned earlier that Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom is a small Dinka Ethnic group in Unity State, Capital Bentiu, have just only Six Clans namely:
  • Mijuan
  • Amaal
  • Abaang
  • Manteng
  • Thiyeer
  • Ngongchil
Those clans mentioned above are the Six Sections in Ruweng of Abiemnom County. Many Southerners people confused that Abiemnom is from Mayom, Panaruu and Jok-Ngok of Abyei as well as Nuer. But in reality, Abiemnom County is the main dominant center for Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom. In fact to make it more transparent and more clear, there are just only two Ethnic Dinkas communities in Unity State of Southern Sudan. The first Dinka Ethnic group is Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom. Back in the days until this time, they are still called by the other neighbouring Ethnic Dinka of Twic Bhar-el-ghazel, Jok-Ngok of Abyei and Panaruu as "Dinka Ruweng of Kur Kuot". The reason is because Kur Kuot was the Chief of Dinka Ruweng after the death of his father Camilo Kuot Kur when the Arabs soldiers were sent by Jafaar Nimeiri in order to indoctrinated the Former Ruweng Chief Camilo Kuot Kur to accepted and applied Sharia law to his people of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, but nevertheless, Camilo Kuot Kur, didn't accepted that law at all. So, as a result, the soldiers turned themselves and killed Camilo Kuot Kur just because that Camilo Kuot Kur, the Former chief of Dinka Ruweng community, denounced to proselytize his own Ruweng Dinka of Abiemnom to become Muslims.

Other Ethnic non-Dinka communities such as Nuer of Bul, Nuer Adok, Nuer Jikany, Nuer leek as well as Nuer Lou, and Nuer Gajaah, called this Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom as "Jaang Ruweng". Then, the last Dinka Ethnic community residing in Unity State Province a part from Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom in Unity State Province,is Dinka Panaruu with its county Panrieng. Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng and Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom are they main two Dinka communities in Untiy State Province. The county of Dinka Panaruu under the Paramount Chief Miakuei Bilkuei, is Panrieng County, close to Ruweng Region of Dinka Ruweng(Abiemnom or Biemnom). The rests of the others communities are Nuer Ethnic Groups. With other auxillery name, Nuer communities of Unity State Province call this Dinka of Panaruu(Panrieng) as "Jaang Bilkuei__". So, it is just a matter of confusion, but the history itself can justify or reveal the truth of how these two Ethnic Dinka communities in Unity State are known. Dinka Ruweng consists of Six clans, while Dinka Panaruu consists of 9 clans.

Before the SPLM/SPLA waged the war on Khartoum Government, Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng was counted to Malakal Province of Upper Nile State, but when the SPLM/SPLA come up with a new innovation strategies, Dinka Panaruu was annexed to Unity State Province in 2005 as Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed by the Late Dr John Garang de Mabior with the Khartoum Government on January,9the 2005. But on the old Sudan list of Khartoum Government, Dinka Panaruu is still known to be situated in Malakal Province according to the Northern Sudan government system. During the presidency of Former President Mr Abudd, the one whom the Late Former president Jafaar Nimeiri replaced him in 1969, Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng county was counted to Kadugli.

In general, although some discords may seems to be the case in this gap as Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng wants to make a "roly-poly" on Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, the fundemental issues on this point is how these two Ethnic Dinka communities can come together and reunified themselves and do the same thing on the table of brotherhood rather than isolating one another in some certain point of issues. Ruweng is just only a name like the way one have his own ordinary name, so let our two Dinka communities in Unity State tried not to loosen their tied because of the name Ruweng. In fact, Dinka Panaruu needs to accept the blame for making a fraudelent use of the name RUWENG in which they are not entitled for it. Let us not put a burden of junk nonesence on our lovely communities for unreasonable matters. As a rule, it doesn't matter whether you are small or big, but the Identity can reveal where you are from and who you are. Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng County remained as Dinka Panaruu and Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom or Biemnom County, remained as Dinka Ruweng. Only one name "Dinka Apadang" which combined the whole Dinkas Padang Communities such as Jok-Ngok Abyei County, Dinka Paweny of Ataar County, Dinka Lual Yak of Korpuluth County, Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom County,Dinka Dongiol of Maluth County and Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng County is the only one name that should be use combined all of these Dinkas Communities without doubts. The other auxillery name which was not existing before should have to be disregarded as this will cause some turmoils.


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