UN: South Sudan forces killed 114

GENEVA: South Sudanese pro-government forces killed at least 114 civilians in and around Yei between July and January as well as committing rapes, looting and torture, the UN has said.

“Attacks were committed with an alarming degree of brutality and, like elsewhere in the country, appeared to have an ethnic dimension,” a report on the UN investigation said.

“These cases included attacks on funerals and indiscriminate shelling of civilians; cases of sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls, including those fleeing fighting; often committed in front of the victims’ families.”

South Sudan army spokesperson Colonel Santo Domic Chol said that the report was “baseless”. – Reuters