South Sudan and Sudan governments agreed to send a joint investigative committee to Abyei Administrative Area on the recent bloody incident that happened on Wednesday, said Tutkew Gatluak, Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs.
He described the tribal incident as immoral and the government condemns the act that will not help in the bilateral relation between the two countries.
‘Each government of the two countries to do their role in investigating and bringing the perpetrators to book’, Gatluak added.
The Deputy Chair of Sudan Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, said Abyei Administrative Area is distanced from the two countries and it is under UNISFA authority because it’s a disarmed area.
‘The act that occurred in Abyei is rejected and is against the Sudan peace talks in Juba’, Hamdan stressed.
General Daglo noted that Interim Security Force in Abyei or UNISFA is responsible and should fulfill its role in protecting the people in that area.
‘We must revise the issue of Abyei and we should protect our civilians, we cannot just watch them dying’, he urged.
‘We are condemning the act and there will be joint forces in the area to be nearby the area, the governor of the area managed to identify the alleged perpetrators’, the General added.
The Sudan Sovereign Council said the two countries are building strategic relations for the future of the both countries.
Sudanese nomadic Missiriya herders on Wednesday killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens in Abyei, said United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei or UNISFA.
UNISFA said in a statement that suspected nomadic Missiriya herders from Sudan attacked the Dinka village of Kolom, about nine kilometers or 5.5 miles northwest of Abyei on Wednesday.
The incident’s news broke on social media widely among South Sudanese in particular sharing fresh photos of dead bodies and wounded civilians, also group burial for the victims of the incidents.