THE HELL GROUND IN LADO GOING ON TILL TODAY
Throughout 2005, militias backed by Rwanda and Uganda, respectively, created instability in the ( northeastern region of DRC ) which properly is South East of LADO comprising of : Ituri / Uele / Wele , Mahagi regions . The most heavily affected Ladoans in the region were the Lendu who fought brilliantly with their rudimental weapons which they used for protecting themsevles in the fight . There was a great deal of cover up of this news war by the International Human groups Organisations for the United Nations informations as can be traced here :
BUNIA, 28 Jun 2005 by ( IRIN ) : - Thousands of civilians here may have been displaced by recent fighting between UN peacekeeping troops and local militiamen in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN mission's public information officer, Mohammad Abdoul Wahab, said on Tuesday.
A Lendu resident who arrived in Bunia late Monday, Jean Mbafele, said: " We all fled into the bush. Only people who participated in the fighting stayed in the village."
They escaped as an eight - hour battle raged around their village of Lendu, 25 km south of Bunia, in Ituri District, . Lendu has a population of some 4, 000.
The UN Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA ) in the area has not yet been able to access the humanitarian situation, its information officer in the area, Idrissa Conteh, said on Tuesday. He said the humanitarian community had ceased activity in the area since 20 June and only restarted on Sunday.
During Monday's fighting, UN Bangladeshi and Indian troops fought more than 1,000 militiamen of the Fronts des nationalistes et intégrationnistes who were armed with mortars, rockets and grenades, against the Lendu Wahab said. The UN used two MI - 25 combat helicopters in the operation and reinforced its troops with Pakistanis.
The UN troops repelled the militiamen backed by Uganda and Rwanda who tried to return again in the afternoon, Wahab said. UN troops are continuing to patrol the area and beacuse of that the Lendu became relatively calm but for how long , which has yet to be seen .
UNHCR Sudan Operations: The situation in North Lado ( refered to normally Equatoria region as part of South Sudan ) updated 24 Sep 2006 is no better either :
The general security situation in South Sudan remained stable while the situation in the Makaraka / Bari areas continued to be of grave concern . In Eastern Equatoria, the UN security Phase was downgraded from Phase IV to Phase III by the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) effective from 6 September and, as a result, security escorts are no longer mandatory west of the Nile.
Under firing from the Uganda Lord’s Resistance Army ( ULRA ) who are threatening and abdjugating young children and to take them to fighting areas against the deployed Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) inside North Lado and Refugee and displaced persons numbers continue to increase always as is reported often by the High Commissioners offices of Aba and the Head of UNHCR at Aru and Yei in side Lado . Conditions in Yei, Lasu, Tore, Mambe, Juba, Maridi and Yambio are the daily talks of refugee resettlements only . From one corner of Lado and to other has become a routine transfer of Ladoan people within their own territory really as you can see here " Repatriation movement from Aba coincided with the visit to Yei of the Director of the Africa Bureau, Marjon Kamara. She was accompanied by the Representative for Sudan, Chrysantus Ache, the Deputy Representative for South Sudan, Bhairaja Panday, the Head of Desk, Arun Sala-Ngarm, and the Director of the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (SRRC) Central Equatoria State, Stans Yatta. 321 refugees left Aba on 20 September . The majority of them were later dispersed within Yei town and others were taken to Lasu, Tore, Morobo and Maridi. Repatriation also took place since 7 June from the Biringi, Ariwara, Aru, Ingbokolo and Aba camps of north Ituri regions
Monitoring of detained Refugee returnees in Yei
They noted evidences are such that was reported through the Protection Working Group that some returnees were arbitrarily detained in Yei. UNHCR, together with the South Sudan Law Society (SSLS) and the Rule of Law Unit of UNDP, visited the Yei prison. The team toured around the prison yard to assess the conditions of the prison and interviewed prison officials to gather information on detention of some of the inmates. The detainees were also given an opportunity to talk to the visiting team members. Some cases of arbitrary detention were documented for follow-ups anyway .
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