Jonglei: One person killed in Anyidi shooting Article Comments (11) Email PrintSave --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By John Actually February 24, 2011 (BOR) - One person is reported dead in what seem to be renewed attacks in Anyidi payam (disctrict) of Bor county on Thursday at 3.00pm local time, Sudan Tribune has learnt. Cattle driven by Dinka traders on Bor road coming from Murle on Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 The youth leader of Anyidi, Thon Kur Anyieth, who visited the scene of the incident, said seven gunmen lay an ambush for herders guarding their cattle near the centre of Anyidi and shot one person dead before fleeing. Kur blamed members of the Murle ethnic group for the attack. Anyidi is the normally peaceful trading centre linking merchants from Bor to those in Pibor county who exchange their goods for cattle and vice-versa. Bor local auction receives hundreds of cattle from the Murle for sale, daily. In November 2010 four Murle tribesmen lost one man in an attempted cattle raid in Thianwei village of Anyidi. Kur also argues Bor county authorities and the state government should deploy police in what he called the “fragile villages” of Anyidi to protect the civil lives there. Many villages in Bor county are deserted as people move to the capital of Bor. It is believed in some cases it is in fear of Murle attack. The county authorities have been trying their best to make sure that the civil populations in the villages are secured, in an attempt to make life attractive there, but with little success. A significant cause of conflict in the triangular zone of Nuer, Dinka Bor and Murle is cattle rustling and child abduction - both are unconstitutional practices condemned by the Government of South Sudan and Jonglei state government. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
