Appalling: South Sudan Soldiers Raped And Burnt Girls Alive

A United Nations rights report, released on Tuesday, June 30, has revealed that members of South Sudan’s army raped girls and burnt them alive inside their homes during a recent campaign.

 

In a report based on the accounts of 115 victims and eyewitnesses from the South Sudan’s northern battleground state of Unity, which witnessed of some of the heaviest recent fighting in the 18-month-long civil war Rights, investigators from the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) had warned that widespread human rights abuses may be preponderant.

 

According to the UN statement, “Survivors of these attacks reported that Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), and allied militias from Mayom county carried out a campaign against the local population that killed civilians, looted and destroyed villages and displaced over 100,000 people.”

“The scope and level of cruelty that has characterised the reports suggests a depth of antipathy that exceeds political differences,” the statement added.