S. Sudan army suffocated 50 civilians in container: report
Article
Comments (6)
email Email
print Print
pdfSave
separation
increase
decrease
separation
separation
facebookmyspacetwitterbuzzyahoo
January 2, 2016 (LEER) - South Sudan’s government troops killed about
50 civilians by placing them in a shipping container in Leer county
and applying heat to the metallic device in October last year, a
report revealed.
JPEG - 20.7 kb
A soldier from the South Sudanese army stands in front of a vehicle in
South Sudan’s Unity State on 12 January 2014 (AP)
The incident, according to the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation
Commission (JMEC), which oversees the country’s ceasefire, occurred in
Unity state.
"About 50 people suffocated in a container on about 22 October. The
investigation was protracted. Attribution of responsibility:
Government Forces," said JMEC’s report.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and over two million
displaced since violence broke out in the world’s youngest nation
following political wrangles in South Sudan’s ruling party (SPLM) in
December 2013.
The JMEC report also accused both government troops and rebel forces
of rape, murder and looting, allegations both parties have repeatedly
denied.
ARMED OPPOSITION RESPONDS
James Yoach, a spokesperson for the armed opposition in Leer county
welcomed the JMEC report, which he said confirm earlier claims that
pro-government forces were commit crimes against civilians in the
country.
He, however, claimed the number of those killed in the incident could
be higher than what was officially disclosed in the JMEC’s latest
report.
“We know these people were in hundreds of numbers,” he said by phone
from Leer county.
In October, he added, 50 girls and women were abducted by government
and 100 men were rounded up and taken to Leer town from nearby
villages when militias allied to government attacked civilian
hideouts.
(ST).
Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following
rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their
Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect.
- No inciting violence
- No inappropriate or offensive language
- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism
- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks
- No deviation from the topic of the article
- No advertising, spamming or links
- No incomprehensible comments
Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on
the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site.
There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to
express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your
comment as an article to [email protected]
Kind regards,
The Sudan Tribune editorial team.
3 February 08:55, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
The reports is wrong
No, single preson killed by SPLA.
SPLM-IO and their alliance AU, IGAD fabricated wrongly.
repondre message
3 February 09:42, by Shadrack Nuer Machut
Now you’ve started again reporting warsome news that retrieves
bad memories to stimulate Id (unconscious) mind for revenge. Is it the
right time to produce accusations? We all have attrocities with
evidences to report but their time has not come. You are just against
peace. What Riak’s rebel forces did in malakal, Bentiu, Akobo is
documented & nobody will laugh if justice prevails later.
repondre message
3 February 10:18, by Akuma
All those reports are just propaganda and Sudan tribune need
to be professionally enough in reporting such reports otherwise they
will be victim of circumstance if there are no evidences of such
allegations when investigation are done.
repondre message
3 February 13:44, by Malakal county Simon
All of you above, lived in Western world and you have the
guts to disputes the atrocities that’s has been committed by the
government just because the president come from your tribe???? Why
don’t you leave it to the government officials to disputes if its not
true report???? Oh, I forgot that denying facts is part of Dinka
tribe....... Very shameful indeed.......
repondre message
3 February 13:47, by Malakal county Simon
Cont....
Culture....... it’s very shameful indeed.......
repondre message
3 February 13:38, by Kalo
AU,IGAD,UN didn’t report what was going on in Darfur,SK and Blue
Nile,only focusing on SS and confusing them,let us be honesty if we
need justice in Africa.
--
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob
View this message at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"South Sudan Info - The Kob" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oozyMiGX%3Dd8RwcAfv_kSL4%3DAfFw%2BL%3DGto8Wp1Sc3yHnWg%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
