Statement
Unspeakable violence against children in South Sudan UNICEF chief
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake on brutal violence
against children in South Sudan
NEW YORK, 17 June 2015 The violence against children in South Sudan has
reached a new level of brutality.
The details of the worsening violence against children are unspeakable, but
we must speak of them.
As many as 129 children from Unity State were killed during only three
weeks in May. Survivors report that boys have been castrated and left to
bleed to death
Girls as young as 8 have been gang raped and murdered
Children have been tied together before their attackers slit their throats
... Others have been thrown into burning buildings.
Children are also being aggressively recruited into armed groups of both
sides on an alarming scale an estimated 13,000 children forced to
participate in a conflict not of their making. Imagine the psychological
and physical effects on these children not only of the violence inflicted
on them but also the violence they are forced to inflict on others.
In the name of humanity and common decency this violence against the
innocent must stop.
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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