2024-05-19 07:32:15
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Collectively, we’re the product and the fruit of our historical past which continues to be very a lot alive within the trajectory of our nation. Every interval, struggling, victory and defeat are the results of our frequent efforts and form our collective id. Recognizing and honoring all voices, all experiences, even essentially the most painful, is crucial to therapeutic our reminiscence fractures. Actually the struggling has been actual and atrocious, however the challenges which might be much more complicated and quite a few require us to work to beat this in a really tough context.
Thus, by embracing our previous in its entirety and never in a fragmentary or piecemeal manner, we can construct a fairer and extra united future. Collectively, allow us to overcome the divisions of the previous to forge a way forward for understanding, reconciliation and lasting peace.
Allow us to refuse the everlasting inquisition into the previous able to compromising our future and but grow to be promoted to being radiant. We should acknowledge that we can not fortunately reward the hearings obtained in a type of mistreatment akin to the torture of the victims of July 4, 1985 and on the identical time need to deny these of the accused from the 1958 interval. -1984! Tell us that we’re proper!
We don’t make the historical past of a nation by enclosing ourselves in nihilism, in confusion, hatred of others and the manipulation of information. No winner’s justice!
An area adage says: “If you don’t need individuals to insult your dad and mom, do not insult these of others too. »
We invite Guineans to surpass themselves, our solely salvation! We should detach ourselves from the above all political historical past made or strewn with ache attributable to the lethal needs of a former colony in dangerous form and unprepared for the sudden divorce of a territory the place very tempting appetites for metropolitan trade.
Sixty-six (66) years later, we should take to the air and on this flight, the goals should not look downward, however relatively, greater with concentrating on that takes into consideration the realities and challenges of the second!
Could God soothe our hearts and defend “Guinea our paradise” for higher progress and happiness! Amen!
Soninké Diané
Guide Coach, Civil Society activist