ICRC To Assist 2,000 People In Wau County
The International Committee Of Red Cross (ICRC) in Western Bahr el Ghazal State has announced plans to offer support and humanitarian assistance to more than 2,000 people who were affected by the Wau County protests in December 2012 where ten protesters were killed. 28 January 2013 By James Deng Dimo WAU, 28 January 2013[Gurtong] - State ICRC Coordinator, Ewan Watson said, “The ICRC is now providing help assistance inform of Plastic sheets, Mosquito nets and medical facilities and other relevant needs to those who were mostly affected by the last year violence.” Violence erupted in Wau in December 2012 after the youth from Wau County staged a protest against the state government decision to reallocate the county headquarter to Bagari Payam. The transfer was backed by President Salva Kiir Mayardit in December during a visit to Western Bahr el Ghazal state. The president said that there is nothing wrong with relocation of Wau County headquarters to Bagari as the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party policy is for taking towns to people in the rural villages. The president instructed security personnel to identify individuals who burnt the national flag during the demonstrations in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal state in December 2012. On 9 December, the security forces killed nine people when they opened fire on demonstrators angry at the relocation of a County headquarters to Bagari Town. In protest, residents blocked roads out of Wau and the army was sent in to relieve the blockade. The governor said the move by the state government to transfer Wau County head quarters to Bagari is not ill intentioned but rather extension of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) vision of taking towns to the people. The state government also formed an independent committee that comprise members of the national legislative assembly and the committee from the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) to investigate the incidents. State Governor, Rizik Zackaria Hassan had announced that the government will compensate the traders who lost their property during the protests in Wau where about ten people were killed. Posted in: Home, Governance, Humanitarian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
