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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / RUSSIAN HELICOPTER
TRT: 1:46
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NTS
DATELINE: 28 AUGUST, 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Med shot, hospital staff opening cooler
2. Wide shot, three caskets
3. Close up, casket
4. Wide shot, caskets
5. Wide shot, Toby giving press conference
6. Med shot, Journalists
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General:
“We are treating this as a hostile act against the United Nations. Helicopters fly they don’t fall out of the sky.”
8. Med shot, Journalists
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
“We now have the black box, we now have the voice recorder, we now have the control panel, the investigation started yesterday, analysis are taking place, things are moving very quickly and I am not in a position to say with any certainty or clarity anything more than that. “
10. Wide shot, conference hall
11. Med shot, TV camera
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General
“The United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the United Nations Humanitarian air service which we call UNHAS we have grounded all flights to Bentiu we hope to resume them as soon as possible.”
13. Close up, Journalist
14. Wide shot, end of press conference
The remains of the three Russian pilots whose helicopter crashed 10 KM south west of Bentiu in South Sudan arrived in Juba. The UN mission’s special representative said, “we are treating this as a hostile act against the United Nations. Helicopters fly they don’t fall out of the sky.”
Speaking today (28 Aug) to reporters in the South Sudanese capital Juba, Toby Lanzer also noted that a memorial service would be held soon.
He added that the mission was now in possession of the black box, voice recorder and control panel from the crashed helicopter and that the investigations had started.
Lanzer also said “the investigation started yesterday, analysis are taking place, things are moving very quickly and I am not in a position to say with any certainty or clarity anything more than that.”
Noting that the helicopter came down in a contested area where both parties to the conflict have been seen, he said he hoped that the investigation would shed more light.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator added “the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the United Nations Humanitarian air service which we call UNHAS we have grounded all flights to Bentiu we hope to resume them as soon as possible.”
He said that air travel is, at the moment, the only means of transport in and out of Bentiu, where about 47,000 people are living in dire conditions at the protection-of-civilians site on the UNMISS base.
The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General reminded journalists about another UN helicopter which was shot down in Likuangole, Jonglei State in December 2012 and left four Russian crew members dead.
In a statement issued yesterday, the UN Security Council stressed that the attack constituted a grave violation of the Status of Forces Agreement and jeopardized the UNMISS operations.
The Security Council also urged UNMISS and the South Sudanese Government to conduct “a swift, thorough and transparent investigation of this attack.”
Council members emphasized that those responsible for the attack must be held accountable and all necessary measures to avoid such attacks in the future must be taken.
