Students’ body petitions UNMISS over SAF invasion Juba Monitor Juba, 08/12/11 – The Juba University Students’ Union (JUSU) has criticized the head of the UNMISS, Hilde Johnson, for not taking action against the SAF incursions into South Sudan. Angry students numbering in the hundreds marched from their campus to the South Sudan National Assembly where Deputy Speaker Daniel Awet received their petition who told them that at the moment the SPLA is doing well in the field. “We need to look inside Juba where there is also insecurity caused by the Jallabas (northern Arabs) and we need to flush them out,” he said. The students then went to the UNMISS premises at Thongping where they displayed banners calling on the international community to take action against Khartoum’s aggression. The students later blocked the entrance to the UNMISS compound as they demanded to see non other than SRSG Hilde Johnson. They also accused UNMISS of failure to protect civilians as “mandated by the United Nations Security Council”. JUSU Chairperson, Michael Guei, said UNMISS must “act now or leave immediately” as they have proved “incapable of protecting the young nation”. The students were later met by UNMISS’ Jamshed Kazi who received their petition on behalf of the SRSG, apologizing that the SRSG was in meeting with government officials over the very issue. He assured them that their petition would be taken into consideration.
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