UN REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Chronicle of death and horror in South Sudan
In August 2016, seven soldiers arrived at a funeral in the Lainya area in South Sudan between the capital, Juba, and the southwestern town of Yei. The soldiers roughed up the mourners, demanding that they admit that the deceased was a rebel combatant. When one of the mourners protested that he was an old man who had died of natural causes, the soldiers took him and a woman into the bush. They raped the woman in front of him and shot her before turning their guns on him. He told the story before dying of stomach wounds. UN investigators documented 114 killings at the hands of government forces after interviewing 54 sources during four field missions. Hundreds more were injured. The documented cases are likely to be a fraction of atrocities committed as investigators were severely hampered in carrying out their work, the report says. The authorities often prevented UN investigators from moving more than 5km outside Yei and denied them access to detention centres in military barracks a...
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