Tribal violence kills 56 in south Sudan in July
August 16, 2007 (JUBA) — Cattle raids between south Sudanese tribes have killed 56 people and wounded 16 others in July in Jonglei state, the deadliest such clashes there in years, the state governor said late on Wednesday.
Cattle raids and revenge killings have been going on for decades, but governor Philip Thon Leek said these were the worst since a peace deal was signed in January 2005 to end a war between the northern government and south Sudanese rebels.
“The number of people who died was 27 Murle and 29 Lou Nuer,” he told Reuters by satellite phone, referring to tribes in the state. “Both during and after the war, violence has been magnified by the availability of guns.”
Disarmament of a south Sudanese population that is well armed after decades of civil war has been suspended because of heavy rains, leaving some tribes disarmed and vulnerable to attack while others still carry weapons.
More arms have been smuggled into the massive state through porous borders with neighbouring Ethiopia.
A Small Arms Survey report on Jonglei said between December 2005 and May 2006, an estimated 1,200 armed civilians and 400 southern soldiers were killed during the course of the disarmament process.
Fear of reprisal attacks have meant thousands of people have fled homes in Jonglei State, Leek said. Many more have fled flash floods in the region after heavier than expected rains.
(AFP)
Ker Biel Ruey
Tribal violence kills 56 in south Sudan in July
More sadness
I’m not happy any time I heard about my people killing themselves while the enemy internally laughes.This looming make me angry to the GOSS by its first disarmmed of LOU NUER.I know the officials of South Sudanese are happy, they don’t carry about the communities conflicts that make them to have
fun.
I want to remind the NUER top officials to identify this conflict between LOU and MURLe.
This would be come the worse situation when you guys think back with these numbers of people. I think it is not funny to stay like we don’t mind for bleeding of blood.
We need to promote our capatability in this temperary peace agreement.We have to watch out before nothing happen. I give these encouragious words becuase you will add them in your new act.
LOU NUER is where I was born I couldn’t be a man of peace while my people get kill every day by MURLe. I would be a peaceful person when the GOSS Knows LOU NUER are the first people from South Sudan who approved the rules and regulation Of GOSS.
I ask the GOSS to stop these stupit people to leave LOU NUER a lone.
Ker Biel