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SOUTH SUDAN / BANGURA KIIR
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / BANGURA KIIR
TRT: 1:36
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NTS
DATELINE: OCTOBER 11, 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura shaking hands with President Salva Kiir
2. Med shot, Bangura and delegation seated
3. Med shot, Bangura briefing the President
4. Wide shot, POC camp in Bentiu
5. Med shot, IDP’s flooded road inside the camp
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict:
“It has been a very challenging experience, eye opening, I have engaged with everybody. But I have to tell you one of the most interesting for me is the commitment that I heard from people from the ministers from the government officials from military commanders, yes there is a culture of denial, some people still do deny that is not happening, but by in large once we start talking and they acknowledge that is happening and they agree to work with us. So I am going back to New York with a lot of satisfaction that we have broken the culture of silence and denial, we have the acceptability, we have the political will at the highest level which is at the presidential level, and that political will is what we are going to depend to put behind the government of South Sudan the entire international community and the support that is needed to address. Because this is the issue in which we have agreed with the president, he is going to provide the leadership, he is going to take ownership and responsibility and our job as a UN and in my capacity as Special Representative of the Secretary-General is to support the government and the president to address these issues.”
7. Med shot, Bangura and UN official leaving presidential palace
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir signed a framework agreement on Saturday (11 Oct) with the UN representative on the fight against sexual violence in conflict zones. UN Representative Zainab Hawa Bangura said that she was satisfied with her visit to Juba adding that mechanisms to punish the perpetrators and giving support to the victims should be initiated.
Zainab Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict said that her visit to south Sudan has been a very challenging experience and eye opening.
She expressed her satisfaction saying ‘we have broken the culture of silence and denial, with the political will at the highest level which is at the presidential level, and that political will is what we are going to depend to put behind the government of South Sudan.”
She added “we have agreed with the president, he is going to provide the leadership, he is going to take ownership and responsibility and our job as a UN and in my capacity as Special Representative of the Secretary-General is to support the government and the president to address these issues.”
Since the latest outbreak of conflict last December, many innocent women, men, girls and boys were subjected to attacks.
A report released by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in May confirmed that civilians were not only caught up in the violence, they were directly targeted, often along ethnic lines.
Primarily based on more than 900 interviews with eye witnesses and victims, the report provided a succinct timeline of the conflict, which was sparked by a political dispute between President Salva Kiir, who belongs to the Dinka ethnic group, and former vice-president Riek Machar, who belongs to the Lou Nuer, and finds that “from the very outset…gross violations of international law…occurred on a massive scale.”
Bangura left for Addis Ababa where she is expected to meet with the opposition and hope to have the same commitment.
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