By Our Correspondent, JONGLEI
South Sudan
Officials in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) said 11 civilians who left for the Jonglei State capital, Bor town to sell cattle were killed in a revenge attack over the weekend.
Jay Adingora Alual, the GPAA information
minister, told Radio Tamazuj that the incident took place in the town of Bor on
Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday.
“The incident happened yesterday (Friday) when
our youth who were selling their cattle and some of them who were buying items
in the market were attacked by the youth of Bor within Bor town," Adingora
explained. “As of yesterday, seven were killed on the spot and today four more
people were killed.”
Adingora, who also serves as the GPAA
government mouthpiece, condemned the ‘targeted killing’ and called for the
culprits to be arrested.
“The rumor we heard was that these people were
killed as a revenge for two people killed in Anyidi. It is unfortunate that
people are killed within the town for crimes of which we can not accept or deny
if they were done by Murle youth. So we want our sisterly state, Jonglei to
investigate this,” he stressed.
Judi Jonglei, a GPAA lawmaker, and prominent
Murle elder called on the Jonglei and national governments to intervene,
expressing concerns that the situation could escalate if those involved in the
killings are not arrested.
For her part, Veronica William, Jonglei state
information minister, said: “What I heard was that two people were killed in
the side of Anyidi yesterday (Friday). About 11 people were killed in Bor, I am
not aware if it might have happened because I just returned from Juba.”
Several attempts by Radio Tamazuj to reach out
to the Jonglei State Governor Denay Jock Chagor, state police commissioner
Joseph Mayen and Bor County commissioner Yuot Alier were futile.
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