Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The formerly peaceful town of Yei was once a beacon of coexistence, but Yei is now a center of the country’s renewed civil war. © 2016 AP
The Human Rights Watch on Wednesday indicted the Government of South Sudan and Rebel forces of committing horrific atrocities against civilians in recent months.
These atrocities include killings, rapes, arbitrary arrests by government forces and abductions by rebel forces.
The abuses Human Rights Watch documented in Yei, South Sudan’s southern town shows that these are just the latest example of attacks on civilians by both sides in the current conflict.
Scores have fled the fled the Greater Equatoria region in the south as a result of intensified fighting between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) forces and rebels in the capital, Juba, in early July 2016.
A senior director for Africa advocacy at the Human Rights Watch, Daniel Bekele said “A proposal for a United Nations arms embargo is finally on the table after nearly three years of atrocities against civilians by armed groups in South Sudan”
Daniel Bekele added that “Security Council members should urgently support the measure, which could help stem the attacks on civilians.”
Read the full report by the Human Rights Watch.
Source: Africafeeds.com
