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| Posted to the web on July 31, 2009 |
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July 31, 2009 (Khartoum) – At least six people have been killed and nine wounded in Twic East County in Jonglei state by cattle raiders.
This comes just a month after a peace conference was held in the state where the leaders promised that cattle raiding and killing of civilians would be brought to an end.
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service from Bor on Friday, the deputy governor of Jonglei state, Hussein Mar, explained what happened.
[Hussein Mar]: “Raiders attacked a village in Twic East County two days ago. They came in the night, they went into one of the “Luaks”, they stole a cow. The following morning, the local people, twenty of them, wanted to follow the people who raided their village. They went and fell into an ambush by the raiders. In that ambush six people were killed, nine were wounded and five others were unharmed. The Uror county commissioner said the culprits are not from Uror because they can not pass Duk which is in between. But we told them that these days criminals can go anywhere. But we left it open because we don’t want to defend who actually did the crime. As a government we condemn this and we can not tolerate it."
Hussein said this is the second incident after the May peace conference was held. The first incident occurred in Duk East County where cattle were raided and one person was killed.
Hussein said civilians are causing these crimes because they still possess arms illegally but he said plans to disarm them are underway.
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