UN probe fingers perpetrators of mass rape, killings in South Sudan safe houses
Army and opposition commanders on list of suspects
Geneva — UN investigators have identified perpetrators of pervasive rape and killings and torture in secret safe houses in South Sudan, and believe oil revenues have driven much of the violence in its civil war, a report said on Wednesday. The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan recommended further investigation of evidence that proceeds from South Sudan’s oil-based economy had been channelled to government forces and militias linked to reported war crimes. The commission said the army, national security, military intelligence, rebel forces and affiliated armed groups had committed serious human-rights breaches, and it had drawn up a confidential list of suspects including army and opposition commanders, two state governors and a county commissioner. Its 212-page report detailed people being held for years and tortured in secret, vermin-ridden detention centres, children being run down by tanks, rape of girls as young as seven, and babies being drowned, starved or smashed a...
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