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SOUTH SUDAN / BOR EVACUATION
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / BOR EVACUATION
TRT: 2:47
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
22 DECEMBER, 2013, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, helicopter and ambulances on ramp.
2. Med shot, DSRSG lifting little girl down from helicopter.
3. Med shot, sick baby in arms of UN worker being handed to mother.
4. Wide shot, DSRSG at foot of helicopter.
5. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General and Resident Humanitarian Coordinator:
“So I’ve just got back from Bor in Jonglei. Situation there is very, very tense. We spent most of the day evacuating wounded. Evacuating citizens of various countries and I’ve just arrived on this chopper with 6 gunshot wounded. Two serious and one child with suspected meningitis.
6. Med shot, wounded man leaving the helicopter.
7. Med shot, wounded man going into ambulance.
8. Close up, wounded man.
9. Med shot, UN staff talking to evacuated family.
10. Wide shot, man on a stretcher being carried from helicopter by medical personnel.
11. Med shot, man on stretcher being put into ambulance.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General and Resident Humanitarian Coordinator:
“It’s been difficult but we’ve been reinforcing the base and the main thing to do in the next twelve to twenty four hours is to make sure that everybody who is under the protection of the United Nations gets the best protection and the best assistance we can muster. We have been literally digging and reinforcing the position for the last thirty six hours. We will not allow a repeat of what has struck us in Akobo.”
13. Med shot, State Administrative Officer for Jonglei hugging evacuated staff members.
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary General and Resident Humanitarian Coordinator:
“The thing that we need most is that we need the people who are causing all of this to get everybody under control. As I left our base and went to the airport in Bor, there was a lot of looting. A lot of gunshots. A lot of dead bodies and very very out of control youth. Heavily armed and that needs to be brought under control.”
22 DECEMBER, 2013, BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
15. Wide shot, pan left, surroundings outside UNMISS Bor Compound.
16. Wide shot, crowd outside Compound.
17. Wide shot, pan right, crowd at gate of Bor Compound.
The United Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has evacuated its non-essential staff as well as wounded civilians from town of Bor, place of heavy fighting between Government forces and the rebels are reported.
Currently 15,000 civilians are sheltered within the UN compound in Bor.
An estimated 20,000 persons have crossed to the adjacent state, fleeing the violence.
Toby Lanzer, Resident Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Chief of UNMISS returned from Bor on board a helicopter carrying seven wounded civilians and a child suffering from a suspected case of meningitis.
“It’s been difficult but we’ve been reinforcing the base and the main thing to do in the next twelve twenty four hours is to make sure that everybody who is under the protection of the United Nations gets the best protection and the best assistance we can muster. We have been literally digging and reinforcing the position for the last thirty six hours. We will not allow a repeat of what has struck us in Akobo.” – said Lanzer.
Bor had fallen under the control of rebels - same forces that had attacked the UNMISS Akobo Base and killed number of civilians seeking shelter there. The UN has evacuated all of the non-essential staff from the Bor.
Lanzer explained the situation in Bor: “The thing that we need most is that we need the people who are causing all of this to get everybody under control. As I left our base and went to the airport in Bor, there was a lot of looting. A lot of gunshots. A lot of dead bodies and very very out of control youth. Heavily armed and that needs to be brought under control.”
Meanwhile the situation remains dire in Jonglei State with more and civilians fleeing for their safety and the fighting continues.
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