Atrocities by Both Sides in South Sudan War -- GRAPHIC WARNING
So it continues on... and on... and on... will there ever be peace in the Sudan? How can it possibly be achieved? Will they keep killing one another until no one is left alive?
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U.N. Report Documents Atrocities by Both Sides in South Sudan War
By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH and SOMINI SENGUPTAMAY 8, 2014
The New York Times
BENTIU, South Sudan — Two weeks after a massacre here, the stench of dead bodies clung to the walls of the Kali-Ballee mosque. Bloodstains marked the ground; shirts, pants and sandals were still scattered about; and torn pages from the Quran were strewn all over the place.
“If you saw what happened here, you would cry for the rest of your life,” said Ahmad Bushara al-Dai, 60, a Sudanese merchant who witnessed the attack on this town by rebel forces last month.
“The first wave of soldiers took our money and cellphones; the second found nothing, so they started shooting,” he said. “The machine guns did not stop, and the mosque was flowing with blood.”
On Thursday, United Nations investigators issued a report describing horrors committed “on a massive scale” by both sides in the civil war in South Sudan. Security forces went from house to house killing men belonging to certain ethnic groups, it said. Civilians have been killed seeking shelter at United Nations bases. Combatants from both sides have raped and assaulted women....
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