The remains of an Anyanya One priest-martyr have arrived today in Torit from Uganda for reburial in Magwi.
An Eastern Equatoria team led by the agriculture minister Jerome Surur Gama travelled to Kitgum, Uganda to exhume and bring to Torit Fr. Leopold Anywar’s remains.The Torit priest was killed in 1968 in a combined military operation by forces from Uganda and Sudan.
Fr. Anywar met his death while bringing support to South Sudanese displaced by the war.
Emmanuel Radio reporter Oduho Sam said from Kitgum the exhumation work took much longer than it was planned and together with Fr. Anywar’s bones they found his cross attached to a strong string.
The body and relics were transported from Kitgum to Torit by a chartered aircraft this morning.
The remains were welcomed at Torit airstrip by the authorities and local people and brought to Our Lady of the Assumption Church for a memorial and thanksgiving Mass.
The coffin spends the night at Fr. Saturnino’s Mausoleum.
Fr. Anywar’s solemn reburial takes place tomorrow at a mausoleum built in Magwi.
Governor Louis Lobong Lojore said Eastern Equatoria wanted to honour late Fr. Anywar and other heroes for inspiring others citizens to liberate South Sudan.