Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan which is now a center of the country’s renewed civil war. Photo Credit: AP
The UN has said on Thursday that the stage is being set in South Sudan for a repeat of the Rwandan genocide.
In a statement the head of the U.N. commission of human rights who had just concluded a visit to the country for the past ten days said ethnic cleansing is taking place in some parts of the country.
Yasmin Sooka said in the statement that “there is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan”.
He said the use of “starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages; everywhere we went across this country” was evident.
Sooka further stated that “we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed blood to get their land back”.
The Human Rights Watch last week 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.
Read more about the Human Rights Watch report.
Source: Africafeeds.com
