Lessons Learned from South Sudan Protection of Civilian Sites 2013–2016

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48 - Lessons Learned from South Sudan Protection of Civilian Sites - Managing the Response "If we leave we are killed" PoC site residents in Malakal gather to address UNMISS. © OCHA 2016 Photo: Charlotte Cans
49 Apon Malakal PoC Site Shilluk elder Apon is an old man who used to be a farmer before the conflict and lived in Malakal town. In the first attack by Nuer (SPLA-IO) on Malakal, his wife was killed. Some Nuer (SPLA-IO or Lou Nuer White Army) abducted him in order to protect him from others who wanted to kill him, and he was spared. They walked for seven days and crossed the Sobat River, all the way to Lankien, in Nyirol, Jonglei. Four men, who were all abductees, were put together, and on the journey they were fed porridge and water. When they arrived, they found women and more than eight children who had also been abducted, but shortly thereafter they were separated. After arriving in Lankien a Shilluk woman named Nyakodok, who was married to a Nuer man and therefore had a Nuer identity, took the abducted men in to her house. Nyakodok worked for a UN agency before the conflict and had also travelled from Malakal to Lankien after the SPLA-IO took over. The four men stayed at Nyakodok’s house for over a year and received food rations through her. When the Shilluk militia of Johnson Olony changed alliances from the government to the opposition in April 2015, part of the agreement was the return of abducted Shilluk civilians. Apon and other men, one who was disabled and had to walk all the way to Lankien from Malakal with a walking stick, were put on a lorry and driven back to Canal and the town of Warjok next to the Nile River. From there, they were put on a ship belonging to Olony’s movement and were taken to the UNMISS Malakal PoC site. Apon only saw old men who were abducted being released, not any women and children. Upon arrival in the Malakal PoC site, he found one of his sons there, the others were alive but had travelled to Juba. His sons had assumed Apon was dead. Apon wants to return to Malakal town when there is peace. “The PoC is hot, but it is better than death—if we leave we will be killed.”
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