July 20th 2016 Protestors Petition UNMISS
Channel: UNMISS VIDEOS
Date: 2016-07-22

STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / DISPLACED RAIN
TRT: 6:53
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNMISS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 JULY 2016, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN 

SHOTLIST
1. Wide of protestors 
2. Medium of protestors
3. Armored personnel carrier reversing
4. Various more wide shots of protestors chanting various slogans
5. Leaders of the group walking towards UNMISS gate
6. Leaders shaking hands with UNMISS official
7. One leader of the protestors saying the crowd has denied them to read the petition elsewhere
8. Various of UNMISS officials and South Sudanese leaders walking towards the protestors
9. Protestors on other side of fence chanting and holding various banners. One big banner reads “ We are safe without foreign troops”
10. Pan showing crowd on the other side of fence and UN Formed Police at the gate
11. Chanting crowd and banner reading  “Biggest No to Foreign intervention – Leave our Country.”
12. Man holding placard reading  “Yes to Implementation of Peace Agreement”, and crowd chanting “down down Ban Ki Moon.”
13. Wide of crowd some chanting “ UN must leave”
14. Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang,  reading petition
15. UN official listening
16. More of Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang,  reading petition
17. Placard reading “No to Military Intervention in South Sudan”
18. Wide of crowd 
19. Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang,  reading petition
20. UN Formed Police
21. Soundbite (English) Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang,  reading petition
“Therefore …Therefore … South Sudan Civil Society Organization strongly rejects the following …..we reject the following … Number one - the UN, IGAD, AU proposed military intervention in South Sudan we reject. 
22. Formed Police Units on guard
23. Soundbite (English) Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang,  reading petition
“..Arms embargoes to South Sudan;  Number  four sanctions against South Sudan;  Number five UNMISS mandate extension in South Sudan; Number six – AU, IGAD and UN  indirect invasion of South Sudan - we reject any indirect invasion of United Nations to South Sudan; Number seven - ….”
24. UN Formed Police guarding gate
25. Various of Civil group leaders signing petition and handing it to UNMISS official and shaking hands
26. More of protestors
27. Protestors singing song
28. Banner reading “UNMISS Must quit and Go home”
29. Various of protestors being asked to leave by their leaders 


STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Juba today, to demonstrate against an African Union Proposal to deploy a regional force to Juba.

The demonstrators marched from Juba town to the gates of the UN Mission in South Sudan in Tomping and handed over their petition to the UNMISS Juba Head of Field office, John Ugolo. 

The chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang, said the petitioners have rejected any proposal by the AU to deploy a regional force to South Sudan.

Soundbite (English) Chairperson of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, Akuoch Ajang
 “Therefore …Therefore … South Sudan Civil Society Organization strongly rejects the following …..we reject the following … Number one - the UN, IGAD, AU proposed military intervention in South Sudan we reject. 
 “..Arms embargoes to South Sudan;  Number  four sanctions against South Sudan;  Number five UNMISS mandate extension in South Sudan; Number six – AU, IGAD and UN  indirect invasion of South Sudan - we reject any indirect invasion of United Nations to South Sudan; Number seven - ….”

Ajang also said the South Sudan Civil Society instead wants the international communities to support the peace agreement.

“Support the transitional government of National Unity, support the implementation of the peace agreement, UNMISS to commit to protection of civilians as mandated, not militarily intervention, the international communities to fund the process of the implementation of the agreement, the government, JMEC , and other committees as per the agreement”

The African Union has endorsed plans to deploy regional troops to South Sudan, in the wake of violent fighting last week between government forces and the SPLA – in opposition forces.

ENDS.