After 22 Years, Still Waiting for Godot in Northern Uganda
ESTRAGON: Where shall we go? VLADIMIR : I don't Know. Silence . ESTRAGON : Oh yes, let's go far away from here. VLADIMIR : We can't. ESTRAGON : Why not? VLADIMIR : We have to come back tomorrow. ESTRAGON : What for? VLADIMIR : To wait for Godot. ESTRAGON : Ah! ( Silence .)He didn't come? VLADIMIR : No. ESTRAGON : And now it's too late. VLADIMIR : Yes, now it's night. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot. Faber and Faber, 1965 (1956); Act II, p.92 News that the Juba Peace Talks on northern Uganda has collpsed, is a mixed bag of good and bad. The bad news is that, this prolongs the suffering of the people of northern Uganda, many of whom had already broken through the paddocks of concentration camps to return to their ancestral lands. Moreover, the collapse of the talks, if true, plays into the hands of war-mongers and those who have been able to exploit the war economy, who will try to alarm and frighten the population back into camps to serve their ow...