Sudan: Embracing Victimhood to Celebrate Victimisation

21 April 2014
opinion

It was a bit disturbing to hear news of our citizens in the IDP camps (where they are seeking protection and shelter) celebrating the recapture of Bentiu -in light of what this recapture actually occasioned.

200 civilians [allegedly] killed in a mosque. Non-Nuer civilians and foreign nationals targeted and killed. Nuer men and women in a hospital killed for not being supportive or rather celebratory over the rebel forces 'success'. Hate speech broadcast on a local radio station, calling for the rape of women.

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