UN report details extensive human rights abuses in South Sudan's civil war
Former child soldiers stand in line waiting to be registered with Unicef to receive a release package, in Yambio, South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS investigators published a report today that details widespread human rights abuses carried out during South Sudan’s five-year civil war.
The findings, with “sufficient evidence” against both President Salva Kiir’s government forces and rebels, identify more than 40 senior military officials, including three state governors, “who may bear individual responsibility for war crimes.”
“I did not expect to be confronted with so much ritual humiliation and degradation deliberately done for multiple reasons,” said investigatory commission member Andrew Clapham, a professor of international law.
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