Thursday, January 22, 2009

Sudan: Cattle raids still plague Jonglei

UN Humanitarian News Service (IRIN - East Africa)
5 August 2008
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79624


BOR - Forced by civil war to flee her village in Southern Sudan, Rebeka James Galwak found her way to the northern capital of Khartoum and lived there until the conflict formally ended.

With a peace agreement signed in Nairobi in January 2005, Galwak thought her Nuer village in Jonglei state would be safe enough for her to return but within a year of returning, she said, fighters from the Murle community attacked her home.

"They abducted six children, killed six men in my family and stole cattle," Galwak told IRIN. "We haven't seen those children since. It was a very sad day."
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