
Just as the times goes, the fatigue of all the cease-fire violations. The high numbers of refugees to Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan is baffling alone, as the year-long internal conflict in South Sudan has been costly, but to keep control of the numbers and study them must have taken time. As these estimation is accurate, but reveal a certain amount of deaths to an extent that could be believable. That because of the numbers of Refugees who has fled the civil war in 2013 to 2018.
The South Sudan has been in dire needs ever since, therefore the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the other Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) mission to are in-charge for different reasons, as well as various international organizations who are coming in with the needs of the people in the Republic. As the massive violations against the people, the continued civil war and the killings done by government soldiers, from rebels or from militias themselves. There are just so many lives touched by this conflict, into numbers so vast, that its hard to imagine. This are people that could have been our neighbors, brothers, sisters or even class-mates. All left planet earth because of the ambition and the need for total control by the leadership in Juba. This because the state are using violence to get all control and all power. However, that has had a cost. So, many lives has been lost.
As explained by Professor Checchi:
“They then applied a statistical model to estimate the death rate and death toll attributable to the war in South Sudan from its start in December 2013 to April 2018, and the number of people killed during the same period. The analysis covered the population living within South Sudan at any point during the above period and excludes both refugees to South Sudan and South Sudanese refugees abroad. An estimated 1,177,600 deaths due to any cause occurred among people living within South Sudan during the period, while the team estimated 794,600 deaths would have occurred in the absence of the war, yielding an excess of 382,900. Nearly 190,000 people were estimated to have died of violent injuries. Professor Checchi said: “It is clear that the war has severely affected the health of the South Sudanese population, and that the humanitarian response to the crisis has been insufficient. Inadequate resourcing and sub-optimal performance of humanitarian services should be addressed urgently” (LSHTM, 2018)
These numbers are showing possible amounts of deaths, it might be more, might be less. Whatever it does show and signs in the sand. As there are no coherent numbers made and collected of all the battles between the SPLA(SSDF) and the rebels. These numbers could have been different, but not like the state has collected the head-count or even tried to show it. As this acts of impunity would make their enterprise look even worse, than they want to be. Since, President Kiir wants to look good, as he needs donors and his budget needs funds from stakeholders, they need promise and prospects. They do not need the deaths and tragedies.
Therefore, he could get away with that, as the public have been preoccupied with the refugees and silencing the guns, without knowing the consequences of all the skirmishes, operations and the continued civil-war in the Republic. Peace.
Reference:
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) – ‘War in South Sudan estimated to have led to almost 400,000 excess deaths’ 26.09.2018 link: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2018/war-south-sudan-estimated-have-led-almost-400000-excess-deaths


















