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SOUTH SUDAN / PIBOR AID
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / PIBOR AID
TRT: 2:18
SOURCE: UNMIS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / MURLE / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY, 2012, PIBOR, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY, 2012, PIBOR, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, returnees from the Murle community
2. Med Shot, women seated on the ground
3. Close up, old woman among returnees
4. SOUNDBITE (Murle) Konyi Korok, Returnee:
“All the families which are here now each of them, have at least lost one or two of their family member. They are waiting here for food ratio, water and place to sleep and we need the support of everyone to us.”
5. Med shot, a family seated
6. Med shot, women waiting for food
DATELINE 10 JANUARY, 2012, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lise Grande, Humanitarian Co-coordinator for South Sudan:
“We will be mounting one of the complex and expensive emergence operation in South Sudan since the CPA was signed in 2005. Our key aim of course is to save many lives as possible, our estimated case list of people who have been affected by the violence is 60,000 , that is the number of people of we think is still out in the bush, that are haven’t yet made it back from the communities that they fled from.”
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY, 2012, PIBOR, SOUTH SUDAN
8. Wide shot, WFP helicopter
9. Wide shot, children seated in Pibor
10. Wide shot, volunteers carrying food from helicopter
11. Wide shot, volunteers carrying food
12. Wide shot, volunteers carrying food
13. SOUNDBITE (Murle) Sarah Lokocho, Returnee:
“I am here because I need something to eat first, after that I will go out there in the bush and try to search for my lost children, I don’t know where they are now, may be they are dead already.”
14. Wide shot, people pushing for food
Thousands are returning to Pibor and other parts of Jonglei state after they fled recent inter-tribal violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities.
An estimated 60,000 people who run into the bush for safety are now returning, but another crisis looms. They are coming back to nothing, for most, all that is left is burnt remains of the huts that were once their homes.
SOUNDBITE (Murle) Konyi Korok, Returnee:
“All the families which are here now, each of them have at least lost one or two of their family members. They are waiting here for food ratio, water and place to sleep and we need the support of everyone to us.”
The United Nations has mounted a massive humanitarian operation to help those displaced by the recent fighting.
SOUNDBITE(English) Lise Grande, Humanitarian Co-coordinator for South Sudan:
“We will be mounting one of the complex and expensive emergence operation in South Sudan since the CPA was signed in 2005. Our key aim of course is to save many lives as possible, our estimated case list of people who have been affected by the violence is 60,000, that is the number of people of we think is still out in the bush, that are haven’t yet made it back from the communities that they fled from.”
The World Food Program (WFP) and other humanitarian agencies had begun airlifting food rations and non-food items to the affected areas to provide for the returnees.
The exact number of those killed in the recent fighting is still unknown. The South Sudan government and the United Nations have sent investigation teams to the areas to investigate human rights violations and verify the numbers of those killed.
Sarah Lokocho is among the many who have lost their loved ones, she has been hiding the bush since the fighting started and does not know the where about of her children.
SOUNDBITE (Murle) Sarah Lokocho, Returnee:
“I am here because I need something to eat first, after that I will go out there in the bush and try to search for my lost children, I don’t know where they are now, may be they are dead already.”
The UN Security Council members have called on warring ethnic communities in South Sudan's Jonglei state to engage in reconciliation and end the "cycle of conflict".
In a press statement, issued yesterday (9 Jan) the 15-member panel voiced deep concern at the situation in Jonglei stressing that "violence in any form is unacceptable" and called for all communities in Jonglei to immediately "end the cycle of conflict and engage in a reconciliatory peace process."
UNMISS has reinforced its presence in key areas of Jonglei to protect civilians following the recent violence and is continuing to conduct daily air and land patrols.
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