UN DECRIES HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION

GENEVA A UN report describing sweeping crimes shows South Sudan is facing “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world ,” UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al- Hussein said Friday.

In scorching detail, the report cited cases of parents being forced to watch their children being raped and that the disabled were being burned alive.

It also reported that investigators had received information that some armed militias affiliated with government forces “raided cattle, stole personal property, raped and abducted women and girls” as a type of payment.

Also Friday, human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the South Sudanese government of war crimes after its troops allegedly suffocated 60 boys and me nina cargo container at a church and then dumped their bodies in an open field.