He rejected UNMISS assertion that its doing all it can to help and protect civilians.
They are not doing everything they can, he said, not at all. They could have done a lot more a lot sooner. We have been asking for this for a long time.
UNMISS spokesperson Ariane Quentier agreed conditions are bad at the Tomping base and said the situation is of great concern.
It is of great concern for two reasons. One is that this place is not meant and appropriate to have thousands of people living there, but it is congested. And its always been congested from the first day because people literally flocked into our site, fleeing for safety when the violence erupted. The other concern is, of course, the rainy season. That makes the conditions even worse.
She said UNMISS is well aware of the danger of a possible disease outbreak.
If you take the combination of these two elements, which is the congestion of the camp and the rainy season, you have a situation where this protection site [is] turning into [a] death trap. Because if there is an outbreak of disease this will spread throughout the area like wildfire, she said.
Quentier said UNMISS has a two-part strategy to deal with the situation.
One is to try to have people relocating on a voluntary basis to other areas. What Im calling other areas is either extension of existing sites that we have on our compound or new sites on land made available to us by the government. And this is something weve asked the authorities from the very first day to have more land to be able to decongest the site, Quentier said.
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