2,500 people kill in South Sudan’s “Bor second massacre:” MPs

January 21 2014 (JUBA) – At least 2,500 people are dead in Bor following rebels’ three weeks besiege of Jonglei capital for three weeks, local MPs claim.

Members of Parliament representing Bor regions in South Sudan’s largest state of Jonglei said preliminary counting of missing and buried relatives and friends submerged 25,000 people.

“It is devastating that 1,000 people were killed in Bor town on 31st December 2013 and 15,000 people killed between 1st January 2014 and January 18th 2014 by rebels led by Dr. Riek Machar Teny,” said Deng Dau Deng, the chairperson of Greater Bor Members of Parliament in South Sudan National Assembly in Juba in Bor on Tuesday in Bor town.

Deng says he based his assessment on preliminary reports by local chiefs and youth leaders that helped South Sudan army and Ugandan forces to repulse rebels from Bor last weekend.

“Riek Machar did this (killing of civilians in Bor in 1992) and repeated it now in 2013/2014,” Dau noted.

Members of parliament representing Bor constituencies of Bor South, Bor Central and Bor North visited Bor town, the capital of Jonglei state on Tuesday, under the chairmanship of Deng Dau using three small planes and said the devastation is immense.

Women MP June Malet was one of them.

“I can’t believe seeing 14 women killed in a church compound” she told Sudan Tribune in Tuesday in Bor where a compound used by bishop of Bor dioceses more than a dozen of dead bodies.

32 bodies of patients – including 10 children, where also found in Bor civil hospital.

Women MP Malet later saw her mother killed in her home in Bor. She refused to speak to media afterwards. Nearly all elder people people who refused to leave Bor before 31 December 2013 re thought to be dead, according to officials.

Government officials blame rebel for the death of patients but Sudan Tribune can’t independently verify the claim but our reporter saw the bodies damped in a small room.

(ST)