The Rizeigat Peace
Committee has rejected the blood compensation for a man killed at Kiir Kak-Beek
in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State last month.
In April, a South Sudanese
soldier killed Adam Brama Jubara, 51, the father of five children, due to a
reported misunderstanding with his daughter.
Rizeigat and Dinka Malual
reached an agreement in January 2024 that stipulates a blood compensation of
SSP 5.1 million, equivalent to 41 cows at the time of the agreement.
The secretary for the
Dinka Malual peace committee, Majok Deng Akuach-dit, told Akol Yam FM that the
Rizeigat community has rejected the cash, citing inflation.
As of Tuesday, SSP 5.1
million is worth about 25 heads of cattle.
“They say if not 41 cows,
then they have to forget about it, and that means they are to avenge their
tribesman, which is not good. So, we brought the case before the government to
look into it,” Deng said on Tuesday.
He added that to increase
the blood compensation, it needs a process to amend the current agreement.
Every year at the
beginning of the dry season, the Rizeigat of Eastern Darfur and other pastoral
communities migrate southward from their settlements in Sudan in search of
water points and grazing grounds for their livestock.
The blood compensation
deal is aimed at preventing revenge attacks, and the general conflict between
the border communities.