Morning Star.png Juba Clashes Claim At Least 272 Lives The Morning Star, London, 12 July 2016 Fighting between rival government factions in South Sudan's capital Juba entered its fifth day yesterday despite United Nations calls for restraint. Some 30,000 Juba residents were sheltering in the UN base in the Jebel district, where much of the fighting had raged since Friday, when 272 people, including 33 civilians, were killed. "We urge an end to these hostilities and hope [political leaders] will return back to taking up all the action points of the peace agreement," said UN mission spokeswoman Shantal Persaud. She said UN bases were hit by small arms and heavy weapons on Sunday, when one Chinese peacekeeper was killed. Fighting between the forces of President Salva Kiir and First Vice-President Riek Machar broke out on Thursday night, with five of Mr Kiir's men killed in a clash which both sides blamed on the other. A "massive explosion" shortly after 9am yesterday was followed by further blasts in the Tomping area, home to embassies, the airport and a UN base, said an aid worker. Explosions and "very heavy gunfire" sounding "like popcorn" was reported by a resident in the Gudele area. A witness told Reuters that two helicopter gunships had flown over the city and opened fire in the direction of Mr Machar's headquarters. Japan ordered three C-130 transport planes to an its military base in Djibouti, 1,900 miles east of Juba, yesterday to prepare to evacuate Japanese citizens trapped by the fighting. The bloodshed raises fears of a return to the two-year civil war between Mr Kiir's Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Mr Machar's breakaway Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition. Mr Machar only returned to government in April following an August 2015 peace agreement with Mr Kiir. The UN security council, after an emergency meeting on Sunday, told the two leaders to "do their utmost to control their respective forces, urgently end the fighting and prevent the spread of violence" and commit themselves to their peace deal. It warned that attacks on civilians and the UN could amount to war crimes. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-58c1-South-Sudan-Juba-clashes-claim-at -least-272-lives#.V4SElfl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-58c1-South-Sudan-Juba-clashes-claim-at- least-272-lives#.V4SElfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13788 (20160712) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/003c01d1dc0c%24e0a282c0%24a1e78840%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
