UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
May 26, 2011 (BOR) – Jonglei state officials received delegates from the UN Security Council led by US ambassador to the UN, Suzan Rice at Malou, Kolnyang district, Bor county to receive a security report from the state authorities, 25 May.
Susan Rice said the team intended to asses the security situation in the region since 2009, of which law enforcement minister, Duop Lam gave an account.
Lam said in 2009, 2,043 people were killed, 438 wounded, 346 children abducted were 848,339 cattle raided. In 2010, 220 people were killed, 176 wounded, 55 children abducted 11,863 cattle raided. So far in 2011 Lam said 1,257 people killed, 592 wounded, 10 children abducted and 41,002 cattle and 2,179 goats were raided.
Governor Kuol told the delegation his state is facing both insecurity and a lack of food due to long droughts and floods.
“Every times there is either drought, famine or flood it prevents crops from growing, and also causes the death of cattle. Those who lost wealth to any of those natural disasters, choose cattle rustling as their means of gaining success and for those raiders to get cattle, they have to kill the owner of the cattle before they take them otherwise they face resistance.
“Now with the victimised or raided group, they can either go for revenge to recover their cattle and they may get killed or kill somebody to take back their cattle. This culture increases insecurity in the state to extend that people who live on crops can’t cultivate any more for the fear of death from these illegal activities and consequently, it triggers poverty”, Kiuol said.
Kuol said cattle rustling and child abduction practices are not politically motivated and are carried out for financially reasons.
“Those criminals, who abduct children, sell them to those who either happened to have no children or those who need more with 40 cows per child. As such problems are basically for financial reason and not politically motivated”, said Kiuol.
Kuol said his state has 8,000 ill-equiped policemen and poor roads linking the counties and the state for the movement of security forces and goods both of which are major problems facing the state, adding that the current roads become impassable during the rainy season.
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Riak
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
UN’s visit!
Still nothing will changed, since they are just there to have a full accounts of what have or haven’t been done by the UNMIS. Therefore it is upto the State’s government to do it best, otherwise there’s no shortcut to the State’s problem.
Ahmed Chol
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
Kuol Manyang,
So given these problems in your state, what have you done? What are you doing? and what will you do to solve these problem? If you have not solve any of these problems, then are still not a “failed governor”?
The issue of child abduction is very painful and will result into genocide in the future, especially when everybody returns back from war with the Arab.
There is nowhere else in the world except in Jonglei, where human are sold like animals..
Neither Kiir nor the UN will have any legitimacy to blame anybody if atrocities occur in Murle.
Ahmed Chol Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame
Ajok Garang
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
They need to visit Ayei too because the UNSC has that role to access the security situations every where ,now 68 people reported being killed by the SAF and where are the security group concerned ?
Ajok .
Quol Quot
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
Quol Manyang,
You are not a good governor!,
You failed to do disarment to Murle, you and your friend Kiir Mayardit are failed leaders.
Quol Quot, from Bortown
dinkador1
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
UNMIS, be careful with those dinkas, they will kill some of you,believe me, you will run one by one.
Cibaipiath Junub Sudan
UN Security Council delegates visit Jonglei
All these death casualities and insecurity is all about our weaknesses. We must unite first to achieve our Independent. Secondly we might start firing or voting out incompetent and corrupt leaders, the divisive leaders after the independent. One should start by correcting, challenging his own brother/sister if he/she sees him/her being corrupt. Kuol is in problems and his report showed that he was watching the filthy crimes films in the state without action.