Panthou is Southern territory

By Garang Kuot Kuot

July 26, 2009 — The long awaited ruling on the contested Abyei boundaries by the Hague based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) has finally come and passed thus bringing about a much needed relief. The ruling on Abyei boundaries had captured international attention while creating unprecendented anxiety among the wider Sudanese community both at home and around the world.

Days leading to the announcement of the Award, no one could tell the future of Sudan; for many, it was the beginning of another bloody and protracted military confrontation between the North and South of Sudan. Thank God both parties received and accepted the ruling with honour despite some feelings of dissatisfaction.

However, the nature upon which the ruling was done left more confusion among Sudanese masses than clarity. After watching a televised announcement of the Award beaming in all the way from the Hague, many were left wondering how it had ended. Understandably, the ruling was quite compex for far too many people to comprehend. It will indeed take long before a lot of people understand what has really been decided in the Hague.

This confusion is quite evident in Northern Sudan. The ruling was received with somewhat exagerated euporia particularly among the Northern circles who blatantly misunderstood court’s ruling as having allocated the ownership of Panthou/Heglig oil fields to the North. This misplaced understanding of the Award clearly overlooked the mandate of the PCA. The PCA was not damarcating the boundaries between the South and the North which would esentially determine the ownership of the disputed oil field at panthou. Instead, the court was only trying to identify and deliminate the boundaries comprising of the nine chiefdoms of the Ngok Dinka which it correctly did.

In effect, the PCA was very explicit about its mandate. In its press statement on the Abyei Award, the PCA articulated its mandate as pertaining to:

"Whether or not the ABC Experts had, on the basis of the agreement of the Parties as per the CPA, exceeded their mandate which is ‘to define (i.e. delimit) and demarcate the area of the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms transferred to Kordofan in 1905’ as stated in the Abyei Protocol, and reiterated in the Abyei Appendix and the ABC Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure."

Nowhere in the statement or in the final Award has the court made any mention of its mandate having to do with the demarcation of the North-South border. That being the case, where then did the Northern elites get this notion that Panthou/Heglig oil field is allocated to the North? The court’s decision to leave the oil fields outside what constitutes nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms does not necessarily allocate them to the North.

The history of Panthou oil field is still fresh in our memory. It wasn’t long ago when Khartoum regime forcefully evicted residents of Panthou upon the discovery of oil there and renamed the area as Heglig thereby giving false impression that the area belongs to the North. The name, Heglig, was coined and forced on to the national map in 1999 as a prelude to the planned annexation of this area to the North. It is needless to add that Panthou, illegally renamed Heglig by the NIF/NCP in 1990s, is an ancestral territory of Ruweng people of Unity State.

The fact that the NIF/NCP intends to annex parts of Southern Sudan peacefully or forcefully is getting all too obvious. Already, the head of government delegation that attended Abyei proceedings at the Hague, Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed, is making highly misplaced assertion that South Sudan would not longer get any share from the Panthou/Heglig oil revenues. Yes it is quite evident that the NCP’s interest in Southern is not its people but resources particularly oil. Nevertheless, the good ‘ambassador’ must be asked: who allocated the said oil field to the North? I thought the ambassador would be wary of the fact that the victims of his regime who were forcefully removed from Panthou/Heglig, with many of them killed and entire property destroyed, are still putting up as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in some parts of Greater Upper Nile and beyond. These IDPs might be forced to open a lawsuit against the regime for the atrocities inflicted on them and which continue to be manifested through this attempt to annex their ancestral land.

Northerners shouldn’t make unnecessary claim over the ownership of the Panthou/Heglig oil field because Abyei Award doesn’t demarcate the North-South border but only defines the area that constitutes nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms. Dirdeiry, of all people, should have read and clearly understood the court’s ruling before misleading the Northern masses that they have been allocated the Panthou oil field.

The question on whether or not Panthou/Heglig belongs to the North or South of Sudan should be left pending until North-South border is demarcated. The best Northerners can do at this point in time is speeding up the demarcation of the border. Otherwise, Panthou/Heglig was not and will never be part of Northern Sudan. It will remain Southern territory unless taken to the North through forceful measures which seemed unlikely given Southerners resolve to defend and protect their God given land.

Finally, I very much appreciate the SPLM leadership for making it certain that the ownership of the Panthou/Heglig oil field has not been decided yet. SPLM need to remain strong in its defense of our territorial integrity knowing full well that the whole of Southern populace stand solidly behind the leadership in this regard.

Garang Kuot Kuot is a Director of Resolutions and Establishment in the General Secretariat/Council of Ministers, Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State/Aweil He can be reached at: aweilsecretariat@yahoo.com

* This article originally appeared on http://bechamilton.com

11 Forum messages

Panthou is Southern territory 27 July 2009 08:59, by DHARCHEP

Hey Mr Garang Kuot Kuot,

Thank you so much for your article about Heglig. For your information is that, I wants to correct something from you and the person who told you about it. First, do you know where HEGLIG is located in Southern Sudan? Okay, if you know that HEGLIG is in Unity State, do you know who are the inhabitant of Heglig? Unity State compose of Nuer Ethnic Communities, Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community of Abiemnom(Biemnom County) and Dinka Panaruu Ethnic Community of (Panrieng County). Now, as you are a reporter of this issue, do you know who are the native community of Heglig amongst those three communities which I had mentioned above?

Let me tell you one thing here Mr Garang Kuot Kuot. HEGLIG is a territory of Dinka Ruweng Community of ALOOR with it headquarter Abiemnom County. Sometimes, other Dinkas communities call its headquarter as BIEMNOM just in short. The Paramount Chief of this Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom county is call as CAMILLO KUOT KUR. Camillo Kuot Kur was the chief of this Ethnic Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community. But, when Camilo Kuot Kur was killed by the Arabs in Abiemnom county of Dinka Ruweng in 1981, his son Kur Kuot take over his leadership according to the Dinka norms of laws. Kur Kuot, the son of Camillo Kuot Kur, proceeded his father ministration until he was killed again by the Arabs in 1983 when Jafaar Nimeiri sent his troop for the first time to Abiemnom county of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community. The reason why Jafaar Nimeiri sent his troops to Abiemnom County of Dinka Ruweng was because in order to take control of the Oilfield Higlig. To be honest with you, Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community is a small Ethnic group consists of SIX Sections in which we call them sometimes as clans". These SIX clans or sections of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community are as follow:

Mijuan
Amaal
Abaang
Manteng
Thiyeer
NgongChill

These are the SIX clans which make up today what is call Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community in Unity State. So, this is what I want to explained to you clearly because sometimes people don’t give accurate information like what happened when the people of Abyei annexed this territory of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community to their area of Abyei. As a matter of fact, the three top leaders of Abyei Deng Alor, Luka Biong Deng and Edward Lino denounced that Heglig is not a party of Abyei, but a part of Unity State. My question is that why they put it on the map of Abyei first of all? Deng Alor and his other Dinka Ngok allies tried to be cunning in order to take Heglig as their territory, but the right of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community prevent it to be happen and that is why Luka Biong and Edward Lino confessed it throw their mouth that Heglig is belong to Unity State.

Heglig, first of all, is Arabic word, but the people of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community in Unity State call it as TOOR ALIINY". TOOR, in Dinka language mean; a place where trees doesn’t grow or a place where there is no trees. ALIINY, is an elder man from "Manteng" clan which I have mentioned above. What happen is that, when Aliiny decided to make a visit to Panaruu in order to see his aunt, he died in TOOR because of thirst and dehydration as well. So, as a matter of fact, people of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community thought that Aliiny had arrived to Panaruu safely and the people of Panaruu thought that Aliiny was still in Ruweng of Abiemnom. So there, the confusion araised, but when people of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community went in order to search for him, they found him dead in a TOOR with his spears on the floor. As from that time until today, people of Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community call this as "TOOR ALIINY", but Arabs called it as Heglig.

My concern and the reason why I comment and responds your article is because whenever people don’t use the right name on the right place, it affect people very much. You can take example Mr Garang Kuot Kuot, if I call you Chol Chan for instance, will you be happy? I think you will not be happy because I’m not using the right name on you. So, in this point, I want to tell you that the name you used whether it was been told to you by Benjamen Majak Dau or any other Dinka Panaruu personel, that name is wrong and wrong. PANTHOU is not one of the Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR Community territory, but it is belong to Dinka Panaruu. Dinka Panaruu is different from Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR community. Just take it like DINKA ABIEM OF THE PARAMOUNT CHIEF MALONG YOOR and DINKA AGUOOK OF THE PARAMOUNT CHIEF MUON AKEEN. So, this two Dinkas Communities in Northern Bhar-el-ghazel are different, but they are called Dinka Bhar-el-Ghazel. In the same vein, Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community, Dinka Ngok of Abyei, Dinka Ngok Lual Yak, Dinka Dongiol, Dinka Paweny and Dinka Panaruu community are all counted as DINKA PADAANG. To be honest with you Mr Garang Kuot Kuot, Panthou in which people call it Heglig is not belong to Ruweng of Aloor Community. It is belong to Panaruu and at the same time, it is the homeland of Benjamen Majak Dau, who said that Heglig is a coin. Heglig is not a coin, but a name of the one of our elder from Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State.

Lastly, the history of Dinka Panaruu and Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community can not be discussed on this website, but to tell you some awareness clues with which you can digest and put it in to consideration when you tried to report some issue like that. As I wrote this article of mine to you, my top agenda is not because of OILs in Heglig, but the land. The land is belong to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community not Dinka Panaruu. Every community surrounding Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community of Abiemnom county in Unity States such as Dinka Panaruu, Dinka Ngok of Abyei as well as Arabs except only Nuer, wants this land because of Oil. My point is not oil, but the land. If Dinka Panaruu, Dinka Ngok Abyei and Arabs in the North as well, wants the Oil in Heglig, then let us wait for Election and if the SPLM/SPLA win the Election, then I and my fellows people of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State, we will call all of these two communities including Arabs from the North in order to excavated this oil of Heglig and take it wherever they want it to be put. The problem of Oil is become as a disease to some of the other axullery non-Dinka Ruweng. I know that Majak Dau, is the one who did it because he is a Minister in the Parliament and he want to annexed this land to Panaruu. I myself who wrote this comment to you, I have been in Panthou of Dinka Panaruu. So, I know it very well. Mr Garang Kuot Kuot, I write this article just to inform you that Heglig is a territory of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in Unity State and not for Dinka Panaruu. So, that name "Panthou" is wrong and wrong. Mr Garang Kuot Kuot, if you feel maybe my word seems to antagonize you, please feel free and contact me by writting. I will appreciated whatever so far you want to convince me. But, remember that "Panthou" as Majak Dau wants to claimed as Heglig is not Heglig. It is a wrong propaganda from the people of Dinka Panaruu. Whoever want to know about the history of TOOR ALIINY of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State in which Arabs people from the North call it as Heglig is highly welcome. Thank you so much Mr GARANG KUOT KUOT and those who will read this article of mine.

Panthou is Southern territory 27 July 2009 12:27, by TG

Now there is simply no room to comment, the Novel up stairs has occupied the whole region. Like the North
- Panthou is Southern territory 28 July 2009 06:05, by samuel_kur@yahoo.ca
  
  Hi brothers.
  
  I would like to appreciate brother Arop Malual Dharchep for his recently comment.
  
  We in the south need more truth to tell, in now days of south government, many things are not going well, some of people in our south are spoiling their being majority, such as when people of Roweng Biemnom knew that part of his land have been annexed to Abyei map, they formed a committee to seek its right, but they failed due to some reasons. first of all, Abyei has a majority in splm/a, such as Honorable Mr. Deng Alor and Edward Lino have a good relationship with our hero John Garang de Mabiopr the late leader of SPLM/A, so that they turn the minority people down, and because he didn’t the truth in south but because he didn’t want to disappoint those high rank figures.
  
  I am saying these words not because i don’t like them, i like them to death for what they did for the south some one could not deny, but they were supposed to study the problem very careful, because such as these small things could make people doubt of creating a country as most of us in the south dream.
  
  I could agree with brother Arop Dharchep, that the Hegilig people are talking a bout its not existing, what i know Khartoum named it after 1997. when they signed an agreement which its call Khartoum agreement, that quickly collapsed after three years, as they found the name from the name of Dinka name " Aliny" because of mispronouncing that African name, but they found it fun to be good to become an Arab name.
  
  I would repeat what its said by Dharchep, that we don’t claim it because of oil, we claim it because it is our land, in fact i was born there at that place which its call Ngol before Arab attack Dinka who were living there in three groups, which are Roweng Biemnom at east, Roweng Panarou at north, and Ngok Abyei at south, and that was until 1964. so i could say its belong to all of them, and Aliny which its now Higlig is a part of Ngol.
  
  Finally, i could say Arab are telling false for claiming Aliny
  - Panthou is Southern territory 28 July 2009 10:24, by DHARCHEP
    
    Hey Mr Kur Samuel_@yahoo.com,
    
    In fact, you hit the point in which I’m taking about. We people of the Southern Sudan, we need a fair interpretation in which everyone should be pleased and not giving a wrong information or blind fooling the other communities like the way Benjamin Majak Dau name Heglig as PANTHOU. Heglig is a territory of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in a Unity State of Abiemnom(Biemnom)county.
    
    Why I said that?, I have an evidence and that evidence is that, I was been abducted during the ruin of Ruweng region of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom county at TOOR ALIINY. Sometime, we Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, called it as NGOL de RUWENG in 1982 when the Late Former President Jafaar Nimeiri sent his troop to Ruweng of Abiemnom county for the second time in order to control NGOL de RUWENG. To be honest with you, Dinka Panaruu doesn’t have NGOL at all. The only two Ethnic Dinka communities which have NGOL is Dinka RUWENG OF ALOOR COMMUNITY of Abiemnom county in a Unity State and Dinka JOK of Abyei. Dinka Panaruu don’t have anything completely.
    
    As I comment, my point is not because of Oil as I had mentioned earlier, but I’m claiming my land where I was abducted by the Arab in 1982 in Ruweng land of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community. As a matter of fact, Dinka Panaruu become an auxiliary people pretended themselves to be the native of this land since Dinka Ruweng of ALOOR Community abandon this land in 1982 when Ruweng land was been exterminated by the Arab killing the son of the Former Chief KUR KUOT of CAMILO KUOT KUR of Dinka Ruweng. CAMILO KUOT KUR, was a Paramount Chief of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom county, but he was killed by the Arabs in 1981 at Abiemnom county. As a result, his son Kur Kuot, proceeded his father ministration until he was killed again by the Arabs in 1983 at Abiemnom county.
    
    Second, Dinka Panaruu want to prevaricated the right of the Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in which the pretended themselves to be a dominant of the Ruweng Dinka, but in reality, they are not Ruweng. They are call Dinka Panaruu. The Paramount Chief of Dinka Panaruu is call MIAKUEI BILKUEI. MIAKUEI BILKUEI is not a Paramount Chief of Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom, but a Chief of Dinka Panaruu. So, there is a different between a Dinka Panaruu community of Panrieng county and a Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in Abiemnom(Biemnom)county. They only name which combined us together including Paweny, Ngok Lual Yak, Dongiol and Ngok Jok of Abyei is DINKA PADAANG.
    
    Lastly, for your correction, I’m not AROP MIALUAL DHARCHEP. AROP MIALUAL DHARCHEP is my Uncle. But, remember Samuel Kur, in Southern Sudan, if you don’t talk about your right, people can turned you down and make you like a "Girl without her brother". You know how it is when a girl don’t have her brother. What happen to her? After all, people of Dinka Panaruu need to distant themselves away from spoiling the name of Dinka Ruweng. To summarizes, I appreciated your comment and I want you to make a research about NGOL de Ruweng whether Dinka Panaruu have NGOL. I’m not jealous of Dinka Panaruu, but this Dinka Panaruu are trying to be the host of everything. Benjamin Majak Dau, is an arrogant person because in 2006, he call a meeting and said that Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom is a very small community and therefore, they should not have a county. Does it mean by Benjamin Majak Dau, that in Dinka Panaruu community, if you are small, then you should not be given your right? Benjamin Majak Dau, will remain the way he is, but to me Dharchep, Benjamin Majak Dau is not worthy to stand firm for the interest of the people in Southern Sudan. Maybe he is a Minister just to defend Dinka Panaruu, but not other Dinka like Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Abiemom County.
    
    Once again, thank you so much Mr Samuel Kur for your inspirating word you have expressed and make everyone aware. Do not hesitate to write me back sometime. Your words are encourageable.
- Panthou is Southern territory 28 July 2009 09:00, by DHARCHEP
  
  Hey Mr TG,
  
  Do you know what happen to Darfurian people? Darfurian people were been misleads by Dr Hussein Turabi by giving them keys and sent them to Southern Sudan in order to fight with Southern Sudanese. The keys which Dr Hussein Turabi gave to Darfurian people reveal that if one of Darfurian person is killed, then he will go to Heaven and open the door. So, that is what happening now to the people of DINKA PANARUU. Benjamin Majak Dau and his brother Dak Dau want to blind fooled Panaruu people by calling Panaruu as DINKA RUWENG. I have never heard in my life before since I was in my hometown of RUWENG ALOOR COMMUNITY in RumaNgoon and Abiemnom(BIEMNOM) County. To prove you that you are a catalyst and a violence person, there is no Panthou in Dinka Ruweng Land of Abiemnom County. My friend TG or whatever name you call yourself, that Panthou you are talking about is in Panaruu and not in Ruweng land of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community. I advise the people of Dinka Panaruu not to give misinformation to the people of the Southern Sudan. Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community is well known by the whole communities such as Twic of Bhar-el-ghazel, Dinka Malual Gieernyang and whole Nuer communities. How come that Dinka Panaruu want to spoil the name Ruweng for no reason?
  
  Second, some people like Dinka Panaruu are trying to bring a bad reputation to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community. This community so call Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community of Abiemnom(Biemnom) can not be compared with your people Panaruu. You are an easy goers people who just run after nothing claiming thing which is not belong to you. I can tell it in Benjamin Majak Dau’s speech which he gave just after the past day ago that Heglig is a coin. How come that a Minister don’t even no the history of the Country in which he is serving as a Minister? Heglig is not a coin, but a name from one of the Ruweng Dinka of Aloor in Manteng Clan of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State. It doesn’t belong to Dinka Panaruu community.
  
  I know you Dinka Panaruu community, you always attached yourself in everything which you are not belong. Why there is no shame in Dinka Panaruu Community? Last year in 2008, Dinka Panaruu carried campaign and appointed Benjamin Majak Dau to be a governor of a Unity State. By the way, do you think that you people of Dinka Panaruu, Majak Dau, can be a governor of a Unity State without Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community of Abiemnom(Biemnom) County in a Unity State? Benjamin Majak Dau, first of all, has a bad record in the Movement. Mr TG, if you are a man, ask me why I said that Benjamin Majak Dau has a bad record in the Movement? I will explained to you if you don’t know it.
  
  In 2006, Benjamin Majak Dau and his brother Dak Dau quoted it in the meeting that Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community is a small community in Unity State, so therefore, they are not existing anymore. That one was said in present of Mr Deng Alor. As a result, Mr Deng Alor, annexed Heglig to Abyei Map because of Oil, but in reality, Heglig is not belong to Dinka Ngok Abyei nor Dinka Panaruu as well. It is belong to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in a Unity State of Abiemnom County. Right now, Dinka Panaruu want to annexed this land to Panaruu as it was said by Benjamin Majak Dau in his speech he gave last day ago. Majak Dau, name this place as Panthou because he is from Panthou village in Panaruu. I been in Panthou of Panaruu and I know it very well. Majak Dau is a great liar and at the same time, he want to converted those shallow minded of Dinka Panaruu who just only adapted thing like the way flu spread to the people. Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in a Unity State is small Ethnic Community with SIX Clans namely MIJUAN, ABAANG, THIYEER, AMAAL, MANTENG and NGONGcHILL. But, my point is that, if they are small, should they not get their right? You people of Dinka Panaruu, you are a bighearted people who tried to spoil the name Ruweng of Aloor Community in which you are not entitled. Panaruu is Panaruu and not Ruweng. I don’t know where you get the name Ruweng from.
  
  Lastly, we Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State, we are a cool community with no conspirancies with our neigbour Nuers and with the Government of Southern Sudan, but you people of Dinka Panaruu, you become arrogants to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community. My information to you is that, don’t hide yourself. If you want Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community, then we will go and discuss our disputes profile content in "JAU SWAMP" of Panaruu. You know what I’m talking about. Moreover, we Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community of Abiemnom, we don’t need Oil, but we need our land TOOR ALIINY or NGOL RUWENG of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community. If you people of Dinka Panaruu need Heglig just because of Oil, then wait until SPLM/SPLA win the Election and when the SPLM/SPLA win the Election, Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community will call Dinka Ngok of Abyei and you Dinka Panaruu in order to come and dig out the oil from the land of DINKA RUWENG OF ALOOR COMMUNITY and sent it wherever you want it to be situated. I’m sick of you people of Dinka Panaruu. I don’t know when are you going to learn the reality?. Last year, you Dinka Panaruu plan a map and annexed Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community away from the map and put Dinka Ngok of Abyei which is not belong to Unity State. Now, where is Dinka Ngok located? I’m not going to negotiate anything with you people of Dinka Panaruu, but know your border and in the same vein, do not misused the name Ruweng since you are not belong to Ruweng. RUWENG is an Ethnic community fall in the basin of an oilfield. Its county is Abiemnom, sometimes, people call it as BIEMNOM and the Paramount Chief of RUWENG is CAMILO KUOT KUR. I don’t know where Dinka Panaruu come from. If Dinka Panaruu want to be called RUWENG, that is fine with me, but they should have to respect the indigenous people of Abiemnom County who are called DINKA RUWENG OF ALOOR COMMUNITY.
  
  For those who will read this comment of mine, please I advise you that, this comment is not concern of everyone, but only the people of Dinka Panaruu who want to prevaricated and concealed the right of the RUWENG DINKA OF ALOOR COMMUNITY IN UNITY STATE, BENTIU. These people are very arrogants to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community. Truth is truth, but I don’t know why Benjamin Majak Dau, lie saying that Heglig is call Panthou. Heglig is not call Panthou, but it is call TOOR ALIINY, sometimes Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community call it as NGOL RUWENG. Majak Dau is a liar Minister in the SPLM/SPLA. For you Sudan tribune readers, if you feel anything antagonizing you in my comment, please forgive me, but I’m directing this to the people of Dinka Panaruu particular wherever they are. Whoever want to respond from Dinka Panaruu, please you are highly welcome. And thank you for taking time to read my comment.
  
  DHARCHEP
Panthou is Southern territory 27 July 2009 16:43, by Santino Nuan

Thanks my dear. This is more than being a good clarification. You have good information about Ruweng land as you precisely clarfied it. You have convinced Mr Garnag Kuot Kuot and I think he will not say nothing again about this issues, unless he needs being challenged.
- Panthou is Southern territory 28 July 2009 11:29, by DHARCHEP
  
  Hey Mr Santino Nuan,
  
  With my deep respect, I do appreciated your comment very much. What make me to comment like that is not because that I don’t like Dinka Panaruu. But, there should be a distant. Take example Mr SANTINO NUAN, if you have your older brother and you are the younger, will you conversely advanced and insult your brother for no reason?. Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng county think that this community call Dinka Ruweng is a very small community and they should not be entitled to anything. Like when Benjamin Majak Dau, raise a comment that Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community is a small community and it should not have a county. What does Benjamin Majak Dau mean by the way? Did he mean that this community call Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community should not be considered as Southerners or what?
  
  As Benjamin Majak Dau said that comment, all Dinka Panaruu of Panrieng county call themselves as Dinka Ruweng and at that time Dinka Panaruu were not call Ruweng. According to me, I’m not jealous that Dinka Panaruu should not be call Ruweng, but what I want is the norm of respect from them in which I don’t want anyone to suppressed me down or prevaricated my right as I’m a native of Dinka Ruweng. If I go to Nuer community and I changed THARKUEER OF NUER-BUL COUNTY for instance and name it as Abiemnom County of Dinka Ruweng, what reaction do you think MR SANTINO NUAN, Nuer -Bul of Tharkuer should do to me? If the don’t kill me, then they will expatriated me back to Ruweng land of Aloor community of Abiemnom.
  
  So, that is what happening to Dinka People of Panaruu. They don’t want the name Ruweng to be exist in its place because Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community use to fight with Dinka Panaruu since 1899 AD. If that is the case as I know it, it is very simple. Second, Majak Dau can not change the name Heglig as PANTHOU because he is a native of Panthou Village in Dinka Panaruu land. To assure you Mr SANTINO NUAN, Heglig is Arab word, but in Dinka Ruweng language, we call it as TOOR ALIINY. Sometime, it is call NGOL de Ruweng. There are two types of NGOL. One NGOL belong to Dinka Ngok of Abyei and the other NGOL belong to Dinka Ruweng of Aloor Community in Unity State. As in term of Abyei ruling, NGOL Ngok of Abyei is given to the people of Abyei because Deng Alor, Edward Lino and Luka Biong Deng claimed their territory back, but NGOL de Ruweng of Dinka Aloor Community in Unity State is annexed to the Northern Sudan because there is no Minister of Dinka RUWENG of Aloor Community in the SPLM. Dinka Panaruu after all, doesn’t have NGOL completely. Mr SANTINO NUAN, there is a game being played by Dinka Panaruu and Dinka Ngok of Abyei and I know it very well. Much of them should not be discussed on this website.
  
  What I know so far, Dinka Panaruu attached themselves to NGOL which is TOOR ALIINY because of Oil. But, we people of Dinka Ruweng who have this territory, we are not in favor of oil, but we are in favor of our beautiful land of NGOL de RUWENG OF DINKA ALOOR COMMUNITY. To tell you the truth Mr SANTINO NUAN, I myself who is writing this comment to you, I was been abducted by the Arabs in this territory call NGOL de Ruweng of Dinka ALOOR Community in 1982. This is not a joke and I can not blind fooled anyone about this. I’m not happy when I heard that NGOL de Ruweng which is call ALIINY is annexed to the North. After all, ALIINY, is one of an elder man from Manteng Clan in Ruweng County. Ruweng composes of SIX CLANS or SECTIONS. Here are they: MANTENG, MIJUAN, NGONGcHILL, THIYEER, ABAANG and AMAAL. Those are they six clans or sections in Ruweng land of Aloor community of Abiemnom county in Unity State. In short, I will not go further, but I wants to tell you that some people of Dinka Panaruu they don’t know what they are doing. They think that they are clever, but in reality, they are not. Anyway, I’m happy with your comment and thank you for spending time in reading my comment. God Bless you and stay cool.
  - Panthou is Southern territory 29 July 2009 06:26, by Albee
    
    Hi my friend,Dharchep,
    I do not understand some of your informations about your comment on Heglig or Aliny or Panthou whichever names you call it. What I want to know is do you have a connection with Panaruu and Abyei? What made Aloor to depart from Panaruu land? Who gazed their cattle before Arabs occupied the Ngol land? How far Aloor people travel from Abiemnom to Aliny or Heglig or Panthou and Panaruu and Abyei? I just want to make sure whose land that is because you mentioned and the rest mentioned.To give you a clue,I’m from both sides,so I will express mine when you answer my questions clearly.The Bible says,"The true shall set you free."
    - Panthou is Southern territory 29 July 2009 12:43, by DHARCHEP
      
      Hey Mr Albee,
      
      If you are from Dinka Panaruu, then you need to distant yourself away from Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community. You guys of Dinka Panaruu are not people who challenge themselves for the fate of the other people. What make me to comment like this is because of what I see myself being done by the people of Dinka Panaruu. When I was in Nairobi, I asked one of Panaruu personnel and he told me that he is from Ruweng and when I asked him what clan do you belong? He told me that he is belong to Aniek. In fact, as I know myself that I’m from Dinka Ruweng of Aloor and I know Panaruu as well, I fellow sorry to ask him because Aniek first of all, is not a clan in Ruweng. Why people lie to each other? I was been in Panthou of Panaruu which is the home of Benjamin Majak Dau. Do you think that someone from Panaruu can fool me and make me like I’m not from Ruweng Region?
      
      Albee, let me tell you one thing here and it is one of your tribe-mate from Panaruu who said it. Do you know Benjamin Majak Dau and his brother Dak Dau? If you know Benjamin Majak Dau, then this is what he said in 1998. "He said that Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community of Abiemnom is a very small community and it should not have a county". Do you think that the word Majak Dau said sound good to you? Why he don’t want Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in order not to have a county because they are smallest or what? If you have three kids, will you not give the food to the small child because he is small?
      
      Why such an arrogant word is said in front of Panaruu and no one respond Majak Dau because Majak Dau is a Minister? Second, why Panaruu people assume themselves to be call Ruweng people and they are not Ruweng? I been in Panaruu and I have never heard it from an elder of Panaruu saying that he is from Ruweng. That name Ruweng was created by Majak Dau in 1998 just in order to suppress the Native Ruweng of Aloor from being call like that because they are small. Albee, I can not fear of anyone and if Panaruu people are trying to be cunning because that Ruweng people were small, then that is not a point and I really challenge Majak Dau and his fellows supporters of panaruu who are carrying their brains for no reason at all.
      
      Panaruu people need to take a step. If Dinka Ruweng people of Aloor community in Abiemnom is small, then leave them alone. This is not the first time I heard this. I heard this since 2003 that Panaruu are call Ruweng while you are not call Ruweng. Why Panaruu tried to distort the heritage of Dinka Ruweng of Aloor community in Unity State?. Like some of Panaruu comment that Dinka Ruweng of Aloor don’t have doctors, Engineer and lecturers. Did anyone from Dinka Ruweng of Abiemnom went to Panaruu in favor of the Doctors or anyone to come and teach in Abiemnom? Why People tried to lost their Identity? You people of Panaruu, please take a step and go back to Panaruu land of Panrieng county and not Ruweng land of Abiemnom. If you have anything to tell me, please write me back as soon as possible. One thing that I can acknowledge is when someone respect my Identity Ruweng and not just to misuse it. If someone respect me, I have to respect him very much. A lot of Panaruu are very arrogants and I don’t want it at all. Why Majak Dau lie and name Heglig as Panthou? I know Panthou very well more than other Panaruu personnel who was been born there in Panaruu. Majak Dau is not in the Parliament because of Dinka Panaruu alone, but because of everyone in Southern Sudan. Right now, I see what Majak Dau mean. He mean what happened in JAU SWAMP of Panaruu. You know what I’m talking about.
      - Panthou is Southern territory 14 August 2009 14:20, by Riangnom
        
        Hello Mr. DHARCHEP ! I am not too sure if that is your really name, any way is no big deal about it.
        
        Dear Dharchep; first of all I would like to brief something about your articles concerning [TOOR ALIINY] which had been re-name HELIGE with respect even though I agree with you or disagree. Yes I have understood what had fuelling up your temper so high. Before I mention those crucial points I have to say these, you are being restless on same topiç; when you heard Panthou’s name it doesn’t offend Biemnom people Aloor Kur Kuot or to hearing that Panaru are calling themselves Ruweng it had no thing to do by spoiling the name Ruweng. Make sure there must be reasons of that and Iam not intersting to diicusing this topic on website because our major threaten issue is to claim our territories with one voice which are being annexed to Southern Kordofan. We can leave minor issues a side I want to ask you some simple question Dharchep, do you know that the name Ruweng is combine three groups as Panaru,Aloor and Paweny? If you know that is fair enough but if you don’t then I advice you to ask elders people from Biemnom they will tell you the history of Ruweng decendants. Ruweng is a name of our ancestors and it’s for all of us three brothers, I know Tuic of Bhar el gazale called you Ruweng but it doen’t means it belong to you alone Aloor Dinka, it happend when you Aloor Dinka left [Manajongo] in Panrieng in 19-century to disscover the new land for pasture when Tuic people asked Aloor people where are you coming from? And Aloor replied that we came from tiop de Ruweng that is why Tuic call you Ruweng today which is Panaru [pan] it self means bai in Dinka and [ Ru] is means bak e piny] when you add the two words [Ru] then Weng] RU - Weng] and prove this wrong if you have deepen historical on our ancestors. You are alarming the negative stories and denying almost everything that people of Panaru have right to deserve it, we the Panaru community has no comparision to[ Jok de Deng Kuol Arop Biong]Abyei, Ngok de Jok have no clues about these territories. We the Dinka Panaru are not arrogant as you said, Southern Sudanese know us we treat people respectfully in the way we need to be as well.
        
        You denied that People of Panaru do not have Ngol, what about Ngol e Kuok clan from Panaru? There are elders people from Panaru who know these places better than we the young generations do this shows that you are being bias on
        your made up story. We the Panaru community do not claim WEEK ALIINY or TOOR ALIINY for the sake of oil forget that there is oil every where in Panrieng County; ALIINY is just a head quarter of oil companies, I want you Dharchep to take your time instead to jump on web and attack innocents Panaru people we are not like Abyei withdraw that word in your mind please . Do not exaggerate something are not real, we can negotiate this issue as brothers me and you some times we can solve this on the ground we will call people who know that line from ngol Aloor and from ngol Kuok where did they grazing their cattles and water points this is a simple case to get rid of Dharchep why are you terrify your brothers for no reasons, you mention about the JAU SWAMP this is a promotion of hatred because I know what you are talking about but that was occured before we were born and it has no connection with this case Dharchep.
        
        For the crucial points I mention above what fuel up your temper are:
        First- you point out that Majak Dau said Aloor is very small in population and not qualify for County. That is not true, the persons who said that was Dr. Nguen and Mr. Belieu they are all from Nuer in Bentiu, you have to know this it was not Majak Dau.
        Second- You said that when you ask some body from Panaru they say they are from Ruewng, yes that is rihgt there is nothing to driving you insane, you have no rihgt to take our ancestors name away from us we all have right in this Ruweng the name you own is Aloor and that is it. let me give an example when some one ask you here abroard where are you from? You initial first on going list Iam from Africa, then Sudan, South Sudan, Dinka, Padang Dinka, Ruweng,and then Panaru, Aloor then Paweny.So what are you fighting for? Where are you going to put Paweny & Panaru from their ancestorial root?
        Third- Majak Dau did not made this name up in 1997 as you said it’s our ancestors name way back from past generation to the present generation. Please do not preach wrong message to the people of South Sudan and Sudan as whole. You said you have been in Panaru, tell me where about do you know in Panaru? When you see Panaru people keeping silince to your articles it doesn’t mean they have no thing to say but they realize that you are a big liar they ever seen in our respectful Ruweng society three brothers or three Amigos. Panaru border line and Aloor has no dispute and it shouldn’t be discuss on the website at all as a big issue.
        Dharchep do you know how many miles from Biemnom County to TOOR ALIINY and do you know how many miles from Panrieng County to TOO ALIINY oil companies Head Quarter?? Give me your figure and I will give you mine. We call that WEEk ALIINY or TOOR ALIINY when you heard the name Panthou there are so many territoies in HELIGE surounding area to name some places as ANAAI and GOOK etc. So you beating the bush while you have no clues about the place. I believe even the really ALOOR Poeple will not agree with you because you wave spoil signal to the insightful good people of Biemnom.
        To the readers of this article I appreciated your time but make no mistake to take my brother Dharchep’s misleading lesson, Iam disputed Dharchep because this is a something we can not take for grant. He claim to be clarification body but he is mislead people and confusion.
        
        Thanks
        Riangnom
Panthou is Southern territory 26 August 2009 16:40, by abushama

By Abushama of Panyang.

Thank you Mr.Dherchep for youyr comments, in fact the narration, that reveals the real name of Heglij as Aliiny, is true, but the translation and the claim which makes the place to appear as an Aloor village is wrong.

First of all,before writing ,we need to find corretct and acurate informations about the antheropological background of our people.
Toward the end of the 18 century, Panaru of Panrian,Aloor of Biemnom and Paweny of Athar were living together as one group,this was before they divided themselves.It was from there that the name Ruweng came into exsitence,so base on these historical facts, no one among the three, who can claim the name,Ruweng, as his own.

Mr.Dherchep claims that Aliiny is an Aloor village but that idea is incorrect. To confirm this let us look first at the geographical location of the area itself:
Aliiny fals at the Western part of Panriang, about(15 miles) away, and at its Western side, there are the following areas: Kol de lek\kellek,Anyuelnyuel, Kerchol-Ngol de Yom.
These areas are the border of Panriang and Biemnom but now it surprises me to see Mr. Dherchep jumping them and claiming Aliiny which is at the Eastern side of these areas?
This is a clear sign which shows that Mr. Dherchep is motivated by the oil which exists there in Aliiny.
In addition, Mr. Dherchep is ignorant about the geographical structure of his county because he expresses that there is no place called Ngol in Panrian but the fact is that there are two Ngols in Panriang namely: Ngol de Yom and Ngol de Gengjok.That erea where Ngols are is a shared one between Panriang,Biemnom and Abyei it is a kind of what is called (Toch).

Base on these facts, I invite Mr. Dherchep to reply and justify his informations.