South Sudan: Trapped and Traumatized Under UN Protection

press release

"I cannot go out. If I pass the gate, they will kill me," Johnson, a 26-year-old student, told me earlier this month in a crowded, muddy corner of the UN compound in the town of Bor, in South Sudan.

The compound was transformed overnight into a camp for displaced persons six months ago, as people sought shelter from the fighting that erupted between government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, and mostly Nuer opposition fighters loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar.

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