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Rights Violations in South Sudan Committed With 'Impunity' - UN
A new UN report has documented 173 civilian deaths over a four-month period along with widespread human rights violations committed without repercussion.
Published jointly by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the document reports gross abuses of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law in Unity state.
A total of 131 cases of rape and gang rape have been documented, including the case of a nine-year-old girl who died after being gang-raped.
UNMISS identified joint government forces and allied militias/groups reportedly operating under the command of officials of Koch and Mayendit counties as the main perpetrators of the human rights violations and abuses.
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Based on interviews with 48 former detainees and 37 others including policy analysts, activists, former military, security, and intelligence personnel and family members of people detained by South Sudan’s National Security Service between 2014 and 2020, this HRW report documents serious human rights violations by the NSS in South Sudan, including torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detentions, unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, forced returns and violations of privacy rights.
