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SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL POC WRAP
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SECURITY COUNCIL POC WRAP
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 03 SEPTEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, convoy driving into protection of civilians site
2. Various shots, UNSC delegation walking into site
3. Wide shot, women in POC site chanting
4. Close up, banner says “Welcome Third Party. Welcome United Nations Security Council”
5. Wide shot, UN Official explaining about recent violence
6. Wide shot, displaced man speaking to UNSC delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“It’s our chance to see the human consequences of the failure of political leaders to bring peace back to their country. These are the consequences. We met with women who described a huge surge in sexual violence against women who leave the camp in order to try to get firewood in order to be able to cook the food for their families for their children. As a mother I can’t imagine that choice, a choice in whether I cook for my kids or whether I risk sexual violence outside the camp. I know I will go and take that risk for my children, I think any mother would. We heard desperate appeals for the Regional Protection Force (RPF) to be deployed quickly.”
8. Wide shot, makeshift accommodation
9. Wide shot, protection force
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Every single individual we spoke to wants to go home and they will go home they say as soon as there is security. When we asked each and every one in very different circumstances each from different parts of the country, why aren’t you going home? Why are you here? The answer was not, “I want the food” or “I want the water“. It was, I am terrified.”
11. Various shots, meeting with ministers
12. Wide shot, Samantha Power arriving at the podium
13. Wide shot, Samantha Power at the podium
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here.”
15. Wide shot, pan to right, Samantha Power at the podium
A United Nations (UN) Security Council delegation visited a civilian protection site on Saturday at the Jebel UN base in Juba, South Sudan.
The delegation, led by United States Ambassador Samantha Power and Ambassador Fode Seck of Senegal, are on a three-day mission to assess the current political climate, meet with officials and to let the people of South Sudan know that they are still committed to ending the violence in their country.
At the site (PoC) they were received by men, women and children, most of whom sought shelter at the base following the 2013 crisis and the recent fighting in the capital.
Council members listened to women speak about what they have had to endure as they risk sexual abuse in search of food and firewood outside the camp in order to feed their children and families.
Ambassador Power said “as a mother, I can’t imagine the choice, the choice between either cooking for my kids or whether I risk sexual violence outside the camp, I know I would go and take that risk for my children, I think any mother would.” She added that, “we heard desperate appeals for the Regional Protection Force (RPF) to be deployed quickly."
Earlier, the delegation met with council ministers where they discussed how they could strengthen some bodies that have been set up to conduct investigations following the recent violence and the attack on the Terrain hotel.
Power said that “for as long as armed actors, rape, kill and loot with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here.”
Power emphasized that it is important to lift obstructions so that UNMISS and other humanitarian partners can expedite the delivery of the much needed assistance to the vulnerable people across the country.
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