South Sudanese Refugees Distrust Cease-Fire

28 January 2014

In South Sudan the government and the rebels are accusing each other of having violated the cease-fire. Many displaced persons have little faith in the agreement anyway and are refusing to return home.

The cease-fire in South Sudan is fragile. The government and the rebels have blamed each other for the violations and insist that they now intend to honor the agreement, while the main victims, the refugees, have little hope that there will be peace. "There is a lot of fear that the fighting may start again," a South Sudanese father tells DW. He and his relatives have just reached a refugee camp in neighboring Uganda. He does not believe that he can return home anytime soon. The government did not want the rebel movement in South Sudan, he said. "And the rebel side also wants power, so they will try by all means to reorganize themselves and try to attack."

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