Amnesty Report: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's Breadbasket Into A Killing Field South Sudan - “If Men Are Caught, They Are Killed, If Women Are Caught, They Are Raped”. 04 July 2017 Amnesty Report: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's Breadbasket Into A Killing Field Recently arrived refugees from the Equatoria region waiting to be registered at a refugee centre in northern Uganda, June 2017 © Amnesty International
INTRODUCTION Government and opposition forces in South Sudan’s Equatoria region, have committed war crimes and widespread and serious human rights abuses against civilians.1 Men, women and children have been shot, hacked to death with machetes and burned alive in their homes. Women and girls have been gang-raped, some after having been abducted. Homes, schools, medical facilities and humanitarian organizations’ compounds have been looted, vandalized and burned down.2 Such atrocities have already forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of the region’s inhabitants, and are continuing. Many of the displaced have fled the country and are now living as refugees in neighbouring Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Others are internally displaced within the region, living in fear of the ongoing violence and in dire humanitarian conditions. Both government and opposition forces have used food as a weapon of war, denying civilians access to food as a means to control their movement or force them out of their homes and off their land. As a result, in a region previously considered as South Sudan’s breadbasket, the remaining population faces acute food shortages and increasing malnutrition. DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT Posted in: Home, Reports -- 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/CAJb14oqcUVW6_Q9T23cbsH8LH6E-2X36ebKUSVxOoR%2BJFaNArg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
