Unifeed
SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / MALAKAL
TRT: 1:46
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 FEBRUARY 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot from a moving car of deserted city of Malakal
2. Med shot, burned tractor and motorbike
3. Med shot, dead body
4. Moving shot, demolished building
5. Med shot, sign Malakal teaching hospital
6. Pan of hospital
7. Wide shot, empty hospital with dead body
8. Med shot, dead body inside an empty ward
9. Pan inside hospital
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“I am really very very moved by what I saw in Malakal, I was here four weeks ago with Valerie Amos and it was a city that was coming to life, well that life is coming to an end.”
11. Wide shot, destroyed house
12. Wide shot, UN patrolling
13. Med shot, civilians on a truck going to UNMISS safe site
14. Med shot, UN buses taking civilians from Church to UNMISS compound
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“People who are seeking protection here in one of the last Churches standing in Malakal seventeen hundred and fifty six people, we managed to go into the center of town under extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances and we have been able to take these people into much safer situation into the UNMISS base.”
16. Wide shot, Protected area at UNMISS base
The humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan Toby Lanzer said that Malakal, the capital of South Sudanese Upper Nile state, is now destroyed and deserted, with dead bodies in the streets and buildings demolished after fresh fighting erupted last week.
United Nations peacekeepers who conducted patrols in Malakal reported that the town has been looted and burned and hundreds of bodies were scattered along the road.
Houses have been burnt and vandalized and the entire market area and shopping stores were burnt down. Malakal is currently deserted except for the very few civilians and opposition soldiers spotted in some areas of the town.
Patients at Malakal teaching hospital have been shot to death in their beds and medical facilities have been looted and burned.
While visiting Malakal, Lanzer said that he was moved by having witnessed the destruction of Malakal.
SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“I am really very very moved by what I saw in Malakal, I was here four weeks ago with Valerie Amos and it was a city that was coming to life, well that life is coming to an end.”
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) today evacuated 1,756 people who were seeking shelter at a Catholic Church compound. Nationwide, tens of thousands are still crammed into UNMISS bases in fear of revenge attacks, and they are still worried about their safety and might face food shortages if the violence does not end soon.
SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“People who are seeking protection here in one of the last Churches standing in Malakal seventeen hundred and fifty six people, we managed to go into the center of town under extremely difficult and dangerous circumstances and we have been able to take these people into much safer situation into the UNMISS base.”
As of 26 February, an estimated 75,643 civilians are being given protection in 8 UNMISS bases.
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that nearly 900,000 people have been displaced from their homes in South Sudan since the conflict began in December, including 710,000 people who remain inside the country and 171,000 who have fled across borders.
Humanitarian partners are providing aid to some 327,000 of the internally displaced people, and food partners have reached some 280,000 people with food assistance since the start of the crisis.
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