Insecurity has hindered return of displaced people to Bor: officials
November 5, 2015 (BOR) – Officials in Jonglei state said the return of hundreds of thousands people displaced by both the December 2013 crisis and Murle atrocities face difficulties to settle in their homes due to constant attacks by Murle ethnic tribesmen.
“We held an urgent security meeting of the state to discuss the incidents od yesterday, there is mounting insecurity in the area, frequent attack by the bandits, killing, abduction and cattle rustling. The main culprits in these criminalities are the Murle, they use to deny all these activities, and the evidence is there. Everybody knowns that the killing and abduction of children are carried out in this region by only Murle”, said Atheu.
“Criminals from Pibor area are destabilising other communities here in greater Bor area. We need people to come back to their homes but still this issue of insecurity is a real threat, it is hindering the development and return of people from this area”, he said.
A statement from the minister’s office released 4 November said a group of bandits tried to raid Bongo cattle camp at the Bank of the Nile in Baidit payam, Bor county. The cattle camp youth managed to intercept the criminals before they launched any serious attack.
Heavy fighting, officials said, erupted between the youths and bandits. As a result, two youths from the cattle camp were killed. The two hailed from Baidit payam in Bor county.
The attackers also had some casualties, including one death among them, in which corpse were identified with two central incisors removed and skin tattooed with scarification on the chest as well as arms, which linked the killed suspect to Murle tribe.
The paramount chief of Bor, Gideon Alier Aluong said insecurity was a threat to citizens.
“The problem we have is here in Jonglei state has now reached its peak and it is not going back. Now, Murle has been killing the people of greater Bor, pushing them toward the riverside since 1960s. A lot of ancestral areas had been deserted and people moved toward the river side to the present places and Murle bandits took control of the deserted areas, making them their camps to launch attacks”, explained Alier.
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