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SOUTH SUDAN / ADAMA DIENG WRAP
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / ADAMA DIENG
TRT: 02:47
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 8, 11 NOVEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
11 NOVEMBER 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, USG Adama Dieng greeting director of human rights and UNMISS acting spokesperson
2. Med shot, USG walking into Presser
3. Wide shot, press table
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide:
“I am dismayed to report that what I have seen, what I have heard has confirmed my concerns that there is a strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines with the potential for genocide.”
5. Wide shot, press table
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide:
“Conversations with all actors has confirmed that what began as a political conflict has transformed into what could become, what could become an outright ethnic war. With the stalling of the implementation of the peace agreement, the current humanitarian crisis, a stagnating economy and a proliferation of arms; all of the ingredients are there for a dangerous escalation of violence.”
7. Wide shot, press briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide:
“I heard reports of violence that included, targeted killings, assault, maiming, mutilation and rape by armed men, some in uniform and others, not. There were cases of the barbarous use of machete, which remind me of the Rwanda hundred days in Rwanda.”
9. Med shot, two female journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide:
“At this stage it is difficulty to surmise that, to say that this is an ethnic cleansing. It is not yet the case. There is no genocide. If it was I would not be here. I am here to prevent that genocide and I am here to prevent ethnic cleansing.”
11. Wide shot, press briefing
8 NOVEMBER 2017, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
12. Wide shot, peacekeepers at Protection of Civilians (PoC) site
13. Wide shot, Adama Dieng at PoC site
14. Med shot, interior of meeting area with participants seated
15. Med shot, Dieng and official
16. Close up, Dieng
17. Wide shot, location where closed meeting is going on
18. Various shots, participants during meeting
19. Wide shot, team leaving meeting area
The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, today (11 Nov) said “there is a strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines with the potential for genocide” in South Sudan.
Dieng, wrapping up a five-day assessment visit to South Sudan, said “what began as a political conflict has transformed into what could become, what could become an outright ethnic war.”
He said that “with the stalling of the implementation of the peace agreement, the current humanitarian crisis, a stagnating economy and a proliferation of arms; all of the ingredients are there for a dangerous escalation of violence.”
In December of 2013 the country fell into a civil war which pitted tribe against tribe in what seemed to be a politically motivated tribal struggle. Since then a peace agreement was signed in August 2015 between the two warring parties to end the violence. Then in July 2016, the country descended back into violence in the capital of Juba with the ethnic lines being drawn once again.
According to Dieng, who is a legal and human rights expert, there are reports of “targeted killings, assault, maiming, mutilation and rape by armed men, some in uniform and others, not.”
He said “there were cases of the barbarous use of machete, which remind me of the Rwanda hundred days in Rwanda.”
Dieng stressed that at this stage “it is difficulty to surmise that, to say that this is an ethnic cleansing. It is not yet the case. There is no genocide. If it was I would not be here. I am here to prevent that genocide and I am here to prevent ethnic cleansing.”
Dieng held talks with persons in various levels of Government, Civil Society and the local population during his trip.
During his assessment visit to South Sudan the USG went to the Town of Yei. Yei sits to the south of the South Sudanese capital of Juba where there is a major humanitarian crisis due to the heavy fighting taking place there since the crisis in July.
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