South Sudan advocacy group condemns attack on Lou-Nuer areas

May 17, 2020 Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan

Youth from Lou-nuer, a subtribe of the Nuer tribe of Jonglei State, receive treatment in Pieri after sustaining gunshots from fighting Murle, May 16, 2020(Photo credit: Nyamilepedia)

May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – A South Sudan advocacy group has condemned yesterday’s attack by Murle armed youth against Lou-Nuer areas in Jonglei state’s Uror county in which dozens of civilians including women and children were killed.

In a statement this morning, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) said it was saddened by attack and accused the Greater Pibor Administrative Area’s authorities of being behind the bloodshed urging the government to bring the perpetrators to account.

“The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) is saddened by attacks perceived to be staged by armed Murle youths on civilians in Pieri, Uror County-Jonglei State,” the statement extended to South Sudan News Now partly read.

“These attacks seem to be well planned and executed with high precision. The attacks amount to crimes against humanity and atrocities that need to be investigated from the sources because these attacks emanating from the Greater Pibor Administrative Area have gone on for some four months consecutively now, extending as far Ayod County, Twic East County, Bor South County and even Terekeka County causing immense suffering to civilians,” the statement added.

“The government of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) seems to be dead silent on condemning these attacks, something that is disturbing.

“All efforts are now being channelled to achieving a united, peaceful and prosperous South Sudan based on justice, equality, respect for human rights and the rule of law, and any effort to derail that MUST be condemned and dealt with by the authorities in the country.

“The Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) therefore calls on the R-TGoNU and GPAA to condemn and hold whoever is responsible for these barbaric and heinous attacks accountable, for if these attacks are left without solutions, they will set the country back to its darkest days and no one wants that to happen.

“We at the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) call on the affected community to exercise maximum restraint and avoids retaliatory and revenge actions and only acts in self-defense.”