South Sudan Security System Collapsed, Raping, Looting and Intimidation Continue In The Capital City Leave a comment <http://www.nyamile.com/2016/07/18/south-sudan-security-system-collapsed-raping-looting-and-intimidation-continue-in-the-capital-city/#respond> [image: Soldiers of SPLA loyal to president Salva Kiir carrying children bags they looted from UNICEF office in Bor in 2014(Photo: file)]
Soldiers of SPLA loyal to president Salva Kiir carrying children bags they looted from UNICEF office in Bor in 2014(Photo: file) *July 18, 2016(Nyamilepedia)* —— The security system of the world’s youngest national is at the bedge of total collapse. The system that took South Sudanese more than ten years to build, as of July 18 2016, cannot guarantee safety of civilians and their property not just in the capital city r but most in parts of the country. Following five days of intense fighting in the capital between the SPLA-Kiir and SPLA-Machar, the national army which split between the top leaders, the army has been unable to arrest rampant looting and raping of school age girls and mothers at a broadday light. According to US Ambassador to South Sudan, Amb. Molly Phee, who spoke to eye radio today, “there is not security in Juba now. Looting is still ongoing in Juba”. Amb. Phee regrets that South Sudan’s leadership is unable to provide basic security for lives and property, specially in Juba today. Phee spoke after the army and secuirty of president Salva Kiir ransacked major warehouses including the lifesaving warehouses belonging to World Food Program (WFP), and Food and Agriculture Organization in the country. “The World Food Program’s warehouse is looted, Food and Agriculture Warehouse Orgainzation is looted. There was a lifesaving assistance in both of warehouses. All of that assistance was taken away” In the WFP warehouse, alone, Amb. Phee regrets that there was over 4, 500 metric tones of food that was enough to feed over 250, 000 people for a month. All that food was stolen by “unknown gunmen” loyal to president Salva Kiir and looting continues. “It is aaaall gone. That could have safe 250, 000 people for a month. That is just unexceptable” Phees explains that US has to pull out non-emergency staff from Juba because South Sudan leadership has failed to guarantee safety for their own people. This forced President Obama to send in a badge of US marine to provide protection for Amb. Phee and a few other essential staffs who are still working at the embassy in Juba. “So any problem we have in helping the people of South Sudan are not problem we created. There are problems because of the failure of leadership” she said. “What we need for us and for the civilians is safe and security envirvonment. So that there won’t be fighting in their neighborhood. There won’t be soldiers with guns, the so called unknown gunmen, you know this terible expression you have here in Juba, going into their homes and businesses, raping women and girls, and taking food. That needs to stop”. Amb. Phee states. Because South Sudan’s leadership has failed to implement the peace agreement and stop fighting, Amb. Phee hopes that the African Union would approve IGAD’s request of foreign intervention in South Sudan to provide security for the people of South Sudan. “We want to see this young nation not only survives but moving forward, but for that to happen we need to see people get very serious about returning to table and abondoning military weapons as the way forwards. So we need to see more than just words about the implementation of the peace agreement, we need to see mechanism making the peace agreement comes to live”. The leadership of South Sudan, specially the president and his loyal tribemen, has been adamant that the peace agreement was not signed to be implemented, a call that was interpreted as the cause of 5 days dog fight in Juba between Machar’s 1, 300 men and Kiir’s over 20, 000 troops. Read: South Sudan Peace Agreement “not made to be implemented” – Kiir <http://www.nyamile.com/2016/07/11/south-sudan-peace-agreement-not-made-to-be-implemented-kiir/> Machar pulled out his troops from the capital on July 12 to avoid further escalations and more fighting in the capital accussing Kiir’s troops of using civilians as human shields while trying to assissinate him. *Girls and Women Raped at the Check-point* As of July 18, SPLA-Kiir has continued to rape school age girls and women at the check-point while attempting to go to the market. More than 20 girls at the age of puberty have shared terrible experiences today at thw UN base protection site in Juba after Kiir’s soldiers raped them at a gunpoint at the major checkpoints. “Very sad news to see young girls of w/c most of them r under age being raped 2day in checkpoint Jebel Kujur by govt forces plus women after they out of UN camp to get some family needs in Custom. They r seriousely raped. We have received 10 young girls of 14-15 years in POC1 hospital n 12 women being raped this evening. Please pray 4 them. May God help them.” Said one employee of UNMISS on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak on behave of the mission. The widely spread report confirmed that the army, now known as “unknown gunmen”, is luring civilians , mostly women, using the stoolen food items from the WFP. 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