Thank you all for coming, we had very moving afternoon as a Security Council meeting with people who have suffered terrible during this crises, some of whom came here in December 2013, some of whom have been relocated only in the last few weeks from other camps like Tomping, some who came in July desperate, many who could recount bullets fling over head in the cross fire of the crises that occur in July.  So this is been an extremely   important visit, because it is our change to see the human consequences of the failure of political leaders to bring peace back to their country, these are the consequences. 

We met with women who descript huge surges in sexual violence against women who leave the camps in order to try to get firewood in order to be able to cook the food for their family for their children.  As a mother I can imagine that choice, a choice in whether I cook for my kids or whether I risk sexual violence outside the camp.  I know I will go and take that risk for my children, I think any mother would.

 We heard desperate appeals for the Regional Protection Force to be deployed quickly.  This is a message that we have already convey of course to the government, but we will have the change to do so again with President Kiir tomorrow. 

We heard appeals for the peace agreement to be fully implemented, people in these camps feels as if the political agreement that was agree to remains the last best hope for them and we heard appeals for the UN peacekeeping presence to be more active, to patrol, to offer the protection that people are afraid that security forces for the government don’t offer at this time. 

We also, I should say heard a lot of gratitude to the international community for the food and the water and so forth but it’s very fragile, when the World Food Programme warehouse was raided in July and destroyed and looted, it meant that ration here were cut dramatically and people who had come to rely on food suddenly lost access to that food.

And so not one individual or not one South Sudanese that we spoke to wants to live in the these POCs sites every single individual we spoke to wants to go home and they will go home they say as soon as there is security.  When we asked each and every one in various circumstances from different parts of the Country, why aren’t you going home? Why are you here? The answer was not, “I want the food” or “I want the water“. 

The answer was “terrify”.

Many of the men we spoke to, spoke of living in the POCs sites as a kind of prison because they do not feel like they can go out on the streets when there are military check points and be safe. 

And they said that they want this prison sentence to end, and the only way it’s going to end is if the UN Force gets up to full strength, the regional protection force deploys and the peace agreement is implemented.

Thank you.