South Sudan Officials Deny Human Rights Abuse

Publisher:
Al Jazeera English
Publication Date:
3 October 2012
Tags:
South Sudan, Human Rights, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Arms and Military Affairs

Amnesty International has accused security forces in South Sudan of raping and killing civilians. The human rights group says the violence started during a disarmament campaign in Jonglei state at the end of last year. Police and soldiers went into the region to recover weapons after inter-ethnic fighting that killed hundreds of people. Al Jazeera's Shiulie Gosh asked Barnaba Marial Benjamin South Sudan's minister of information about human rights abuses.

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