This article was last updated on May 25, 2022
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The unexploded ordnance were recently found and reported to the UN Mine Action Organization by the local population.
“The item will be destroyed in Situ and will not be removed….any movement of personnel in and around Bentiu cemetery will be avoided from morning 11:00am to 1:00pm afternoon,” said by Taban Augustine Joseph, Operation and Quality Assurance Assistant for the United Nation Mine Action Services at the Bentiu sub office.
“The hazardous area is located in Bentiu cemetery some 430 meters and is about 8 kilometres from UNMISS camp as you travel from Rubkona to Kuermandoka’s tarmac road leading to the Governor’s office… there is also another item in Mayiendit and we will be sending our team there,” he said.
Joseph added that the item is buried down and only the tail fin assembly can be seen….it has been fired he added but it required excavation and to be destroyed in-situ if found complete or to be removed.
“The item will be destroyed in situ and will be not be moved, any movement of personnel in around Bentiu cemetery will be avoided from morning to till noon,” he said.
Joseph also urged the local community to report such a thing to the Mine Action Group.
The Danish Demining Group is one of our mine action organizations that will conduct a demolition of ordnance at Bentiu cemetery.
The ordnance is the remnants of the artery bombs used by Sudan Army forces (SAF) during the civil war.
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