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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / TOBY LANZER PRESSER
TRT: 2:08
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 15 APRIL, 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Wide shot, press room
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“Bentiu in Unity state where violence is ongoing inside the city, I am outraged there are hundreds of women and children trying to stay safe in the hospital there I am outraged that there are hundreds of people trying to reach the safety of the UN base in UNMISS base in Bentiu we think we have now got nine thousand people inside our base there”
3. Med shot, Lanzer talking
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan:
“I really cannot understand what is perpetuating this, allegedly there is a secession of hostilities but I think that once again the incidents of Bentiu today to show that, is not real”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) and Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan.
“If the people of south Sudan the space they need to turn to their cattle, their goat, their sheep allow them the safety to get to their fields to plant and to cultivate. And if they do then the people of this country can do to an awful lot to help themselves and to avoid the ultimate disaster but if they cannot turn to their livestock they cannot plant in the way that they normally work if they cannot get to rivers and fish or collect wild berries or other fruits as they normally would have this time of the year, well it doesn’t take very much imagination to know what is going to happen in a few months’ time and I really feel a sense of outrage.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. Wide shot, Lanzer leaving press conference
Following renewal of fighting in Bentiu, capital of the Unity State of South Sudan, the anti-government forces have taken control of the city, doubling the number of people seeking shelter at the UNMISS base in Bentiu to about 9 000, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer said in Juba.
Lanzer said he felt “an outrage”, as UNMISS, UN agencies and other aid agencies struggle to deal with immediate consequences of the ongoing violence.
UNMISS had sent a patrol of peacekeepers to protect civilians seeking shelter in Bentiu Hospital, said Lanzer. He added that this was done to avoid a repeat of incidents in Malakal Hospital in Upper Nile State where innocent civilians were reportedly killed by fighting forces.
Lanzer said it would take “compassion, humility and a new way of thinking” for the country to achieve peace, which would enable it to become a “viable state”.
“If the people of south Sudan the space they need to turn to their cattle, their goat, their sheep allow them the safety to get to their fields to plant and to cultivate. And if they do then the people of this country can do to an awful lot to help themselves and to avoid the ultimate disaster but if they cannot turn to their livestock they cannot plant in the way that they normally work if they cannot get to rivers and fish or collect wild berries or other fruits as they normally would have this time of the year, well it doesn’t take very much imagination to know what is going to happen in a few months’ time and I really feel a sense of outrage. “ – said Lanzer.
He cited limited resources, with only 36 per cent of $1.27 billion funding required for crisis response raised, as well as continuing violence, interference with aid operations and coming rains.
Humanitarians faced huge challenges in helping over 70,000 civilians at UN bases, 700,000 others displaced outside and seven million at the risk of severe hunger.
The fighting erupted in December last year, between armed forces loyal to President Kiir and those loyal to his former deputy Riek Machar after president Kiir accused his sacked deputy of plotting a coup.
