Yei, 20 January, 2021 / 8:44 pm (ACI Africa).
Following random murders of civilians by what authorities have referred to as “unknown gunmen” in South Sudanese villages, a Catholic Bishop has told politicians to make the country peaceful for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and refugees after they return home.
In a Sunday, January 17 message, Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe of South Sudan’s Yei Diocese urged political and military leaders not to “politicize the situation by saying there is no war” when people are still dying almost everywhere.
“Let the IDPs and refugees come back home and find peace, not war. Let us not be saying that there is now peace in South Sudan,” Bishop Tombe said.
Clashes between government and opposition forces and intercommunal fighting usually result in loss of lives, but area commissioners have not been appointed in all 79 counties around the country, the South Sudanese Bishop noted.
While appreciating the progress in the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), the Bishop discouraged the use of propaganda which he said painted a rosy picture of the country while the reality was different.
