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January 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The revenge attacks are the latest in a long-running cycle of violence between
the two communities. Officials say the attacks are being carried out in
retaliation for raids by the Lou Nuer tribe on Murle communities in Pibor
county in late December and early January.
No reliable death toll has yet been released from those attacks, but the
United Nations estimates that as many as 60,000 people were affected by the
violence and are in need of assistance. One Murle official said more than
3,000 Murle died in the December-January attacks. That toll has not been
corroborated by the UN or central government.
Deng said the residents of Duk County are fleeing the county in anticipation
of an impending second attack.
“What happened in Duk Padyiet is not the end,” he said. “We
are expecting another attack this evening from similar forces because they
did not take cattle. They attacked the town. There were no cattle in the
town.”
The United Nations has recently launched operations in Jonglei to reach the
tens of thousands affected by the violence. South Sudan has deployed 3,000
soldiers to the area in an attempt to quell the ethnic clashes.
Cattle raids between the Lou Nuer and Murle have gone on for decades. The
23-year civil war between the newly independent South Sudan and its northern
neighbour, Sudan, flooded this region with weapons.
The crisis in Jonglei is just one of a host of problems in one of the world’s
most underdeveloped nations, which gained independence last July. Besides
the 60,000 displaced in Jonglei, the country is also hosting more than
80,000 refugees who have fled rebellions in neighbouring Sudan. Thousands of
South Sudanese have returned from Sudan since independence and thousands
more have been displaced by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group
plaguing Central Africa.
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