Kiir’s press secretary calls Murle attacks on Lou-Nuer areas as “revenge”
President Salva Kiir’s Press Secretary Ateny Wek Ateny speaking to reporters in 2014 in Juba (Credit: Unknown)
May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – The Press Secretary for President Salva Kiir Mayardit has referred to the ongoing Murle attack against villages in Greater Akobo state as revenge and counter-revenge.
Fighting has been ongoing in parts of Uror county of Jonglei state after heavily armed Murle Youth launched attacks against in several villages there.
Dozens of civilians have been killed and an unknown number of cattle have been looted and officials in Uror have said that fighting was still ongoing as local youth try to push back the attackers.
Speaking this afternoon, Ateny Wek Ateny, Kiir’s spokesman, said what is going on in Jonglei was a revenge attack and that absence of a state government there is making the situation worse.
“What is happening in that area is attack and counter-attack, the revenge and counter revenge…and [it’s because] the state governments are not in place to give the [national] government reports,” Ateny said
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