South Sudan: 'Horrifying Human Rights Disaster'

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
17 January 2014
Tags:
South Sudan, Conflict, Peace and Security, Human Rights, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution

The United Nations has evidence of the use of child soldiers and mass atrocities committed by both sides warring in South Sudan, a "horrifying human rights disaster" that has killed thousands, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official said Friday. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic. "Quite a number of child soldiers have been recruited in the so-called White Army," he said, referring to the Nuer tribe's militia fighting in Jonglei state.

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