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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV / UNMISS
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 22 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
22 OCTOBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Løj, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS):
“Since I’ve been on the ground, I have been shocked by the complete disregard for human life. Those responsible for committing atrocities and human rights violations must be held to account and face justice. In this connection, I look forward to the findings of the African Union Commission of Inquiry.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Margrethe Løj, Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS):
“There is no alternative to silencing the guns and concluding without further delay a comprehensive peace agreement in order to return the country towards the path of peace and stability. This is the message I have consistently conveyed to all my South Sudan interlocutors, including President Kiir and opposition leader Dr. Riek Machar. I told them that the guns must be silenced. Peace cannot be delayed even for one more day.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict:
“Since the crisis, sexual violence has reached an alarming level, expressed in a vicious cycle of retribution and revenge. I am gravely concerned about the ethnic dimension manifest particularly in targeting and reprisal between Dinka and Nuer communities. Across the country, women live in poor conditions. They have little or no access to medical services, let alone to justice.”
9. Pan left, Security Council
UNMISS - 10 OCTOBER 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
10. Wide shot, Bangura arriving in Bentiu
11. Med shot, Bangura entering a UN car
12. Med shot, Bangura visiting a clinic inside camp
6 OCTOBER 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
13. Close up, Nuer woman
14. Med shot, women listening to Bangura
15. Med shot, Zainab Bangura Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict addressing women group
UNMISS - 10 OCTOBER 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
16. Med shot, IDP's flooded road inside camp
OCTOBER 11, 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
17. Various shots, Bangura meeting with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir
The Secretary-General’s Special Representative in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Løj, in her briefing to the Security Council today (22 October), said that after six weeks in South Sudan, she had been “shocked by the complete disregard for human life” in the country.
Løj told the Council that “hose responsible for committing atrocities and human rights violations must be held to account and face justice” and added that she looked forward to the findings of the African Union Commission of Inquiry.
Loej called on the Security Council, regional leaders and all friends of South Sudan to remain fully engaged with the warring parties so that they make the necessary compromises required to translate their public statements of commitment to peace into actions on the ground.
She said there was “no alternative to silencing the guns and concluding without further delay a comprehensive peace agreement in order to return the country towards the path of peace and stability.”
The Special Representative noted that she had conveyed this message to both President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar. She said “peace cannot be delayed even for one more day.”
On the civilians sheltering in UN bases throughout the country, she said that the Mission still provided protection to about 100,000 internally displaced persons in nine sites. She added that UN Mission in South Sudan and its humanitarian partners have invested substantial resources on existing site enhancements and the construction of new sites to improve living conditions.
Following her visit to South Sudan at the beginning of the month, the Secretary-General’s Special representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Bangura, also briefed the Council.
She said “since the crisis, sexual violence has reached an alarming level, expressed in a vicious cycle of retribution and revenge.”
She expressed concern “about the ethnic dimension manifest particularly in targeting and reprisal between Dinka and Nuer communities.”
Across the country, she said “women live in poor conditions. They have little or no access to medical services, let alone to justice.”
During her visit to South Sudan, Bangura visited IDP camps in Bentiu and spoke with women’s groups. She also met President Kiir in Juba and members of the opposition in Addis Ababa
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.
South Sudan’s Government has been at war with rebel groups since 15 December, when a clash between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those loyal to former Vice-President Riek Machar snowballed into full-scale fighting.
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