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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / SHEARER DISPLACED 09 DEC 19
TRT: 2:19
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH /NUER /NATS
DATELINE: 29 NOVEMBER 2019, BOR, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, Protection of Civilian Site in Bor
2. Med shot, boys in camp
3. Med shot, tents
4. Med shot, Yot with her family
5. Close up, Yot
6. Med shot, displaced kids
7. SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nariel Ochiek Yot Displaced Mother:
“We are hoping for peace. Peace is the only thing that can make this country stable. But I do not trust the politicians and the military because they are the ones that always drag people to peace and, when they see peace, they drag people to war again. It feels hopeless and I can’t see a way to survive. I am a woman and I don’t trust anyone. There are always rumours that people are dying, that there is not enough food and disease is killing people.”
8. Med Shot, David Shearer with displaced families
9. Close up, Yot
10. Med shot, displaced couple
11. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“People are anxious about the peace process. I think they would like to see more progress and they said, you know, 100 days is not a long time. We need to make rapid progress and I don’t disagree with them. I think that’s what we have to do. We have to try really hard to put the political will in and move things forward.”
12. Wide shot, David Shearer with internally displaced people
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Maker Thiong Maal Jonglei Governor:
“We need services. We need medication. We need, actually, food and plastic sheets, mosquito nets. These are the things that we need now because, in the country here, we don’t have even a single factory so that we can cover the gap between what we need and the support we get. So, we are very vulnerable and hope that the world community will stand with us.”
14. Various shots, internally displaced people
Nyarien Ochiek Yot and her five children fled from their village in the far north of South Sudan to the United Nations protection site in Bor when civil war erupted, and her husband was killed in the fighting. Six years on, her family wants to return to their home in Mankien as peace descends on the country.
But she is nervous about whether the peace deal will hold in the wake of yet another delay in the implementation process.
SOUNDBITE (Nuer) Nariel Ochiek Yot Displaced Mother:
“We are hoping for peace. Peace is the only thing that can make this country stable. But I do not trust the politicians and the military because they are the ones that always drag people to peace and, when they see peace, they drag people to war again. It feels hopeless and I can’t see a way to survive. I am a woman and I don’t trust anyone. There are always rumours that people are dying, that there is not enough food and disease is killing people.”
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) met with Nyarien Ochiek Yot and other families who want to leave the protection site. He promised to help facilitate their travel home when they are ready to go but understands their uncertainty.
SOUNDBITE (English) David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan:
“People are anxious about the peace process. I think they would like to see more progress and they said, you know, 100 days is not a long time. We need to make rapid progress and I don’t disagree with them. I think that’s what we have to do. We have to try really hard to put the political will in and move things forward.”
While the peace process is progressing between warring groups locally, devastating floods that struck the region last month are proving to be another disincentive for displaced families wanting to leave protection camps and return home. Tukuls (huts), crops and basic services, like water supplies, have been damaged or destroyed by the rising water. Local authorities are asking for help from the international community.
SOUNDBITE (English) Maker Thiong Maal Jonglei Governor:
“We need services. We need medication. We need, actually, food and plastic sheets, mosquito nets. These are the things that we need now because, in the country here, we don’t have even a single factory so that we can cover the gap between what we need and the support we get. So, we are very vulnerable and hope that the world community will stand with us.”
Humanitarian support and the acceleration of the peace process are vital to ensuring that displaced families have the trust and confidence they need to leave UN camps so they can rebuild their homes and lives in their own communities.
