The United Nations has accused South Sudan’s government forces and aligned troops of killing dozens of civilians, including children and the elderly, in deliberate and ruthless attacks this year that may amount to war crimes.
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) and the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) jointly published a report today, documenting at least two hundred and thirty-two civilian deaths and many more injuries between the sixteenth of April and the twenty-fourth of May in attacks by government-backed troops as well as armed youth on forty villages in the opposition-held areas of Mayendit and Leer.
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement, that the perpetrators of these revolting acts against defenceless civilians, including those bearing command responsibility, must not be allowed to get away with it. He called on the government to halt all hostilities against civilians.
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