Yei, 16 February, 2023 / 8:25 pm (ACI Africa).
The Catholic Bishop of South Sudan's Yei Diocese has condemned “the killing of innocent people” in his Episcopal See earlier this month, and described the loss of lives as “shameful for us”.
On February 3, 27 people were reportedly killed in South Sudan’s Kajo-Keji County in Central Equatoria State in a violence conflict involving cattle herders and militia fighters.
In his February 12 homily at Christ the King Cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Yei, Bishop Alex Lodiong Sakor Eyobo said, “We deeply regret the killing of innocent people in this locality and condemn these acts and other killings that happened previously.”
“It’s really shameful for us to do this to ourselves as the people of this country,” Bishop Lodiong said, and added, “The cattle headers killed innocent people for nothing, just because they were holding guns.”
The South Sudanese Catholic Bishop said that “the residents of Kajo-Keji have no issues with the cattle keepers; they should go back to their place of origin to avoid such incidents from happening.”
