South Sudan: UN Human Rights Council - Council Has to Condemn Abuses in South Sudan - Oral Statement Delivered Under Item 10

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South Sudan's new war is characterized by horrific attacks on civilians, often because of their ethnicity and presumed allegiances. The abuses began with widespread and systematic attacks against and killings of Nuer in the capital Juba, ethnically profiled, pulled from cars, ordered out of their homes in house-to-house searches, shot and killed, rounded up, unlawfully detained, in some cases tortured by government security forces.

At the end of the first full day of this war over 200 Nuer men were massacred in a building in Juba. The conflict spread quickly with extraordinary cruelty. Opposition forces in the first half of January shot and killed civilians they found in the town of Bor, Jonglei state, leaving a town dotted with rotting corpses. In Bentiu, Bor and Malakal in Upper Nile state, both sides have conducted massive looting of civilian property and have burned markets, neighborhoods and countless homes. Human Rights Watch visited the towns of Bor and Bentiu in South Sudan earlier this month. The conflict continues, attacks on civilians continue and there has been no accountability for serious alleged crimes.

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