South Sudan sees 'mass ethnic killings'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Hannah McNeish, a journalist in Juba, told the BBC that she had interviewed a man called Simon, living at a UN camp, who said he was shot four times but managed to survive a mass killing by hiding under dead bodies.

"He tells of being rounded up with about 250 other men, driven to a police station in one of Juba's busiest suburbs. He describes an ordeal whereby over the course of two days, forces outside the windows fired into this room, killing all but 12 men," she said.

McNeish said this account had been corroborated by two other survivors at the camp.
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UN humanitarian co-ordinator Toby Lanzer, who was in Bor over the weekend, told the BBC he had witnessed "some of the most horrible things that one can imagine".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25502457

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This sounds gruesome. It has the potential of another Rwanda.

[7962]

1. And what will anyone do about it? Thats the question.

The African combined force? French? The UN? It will probably be like it is most other places; the US will be looked at as the only chance to stop it. Guess we'll see.

[pampango]

3. Probably nothing. And then a future politician will say "Never again" again. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. South Sudan 'mass grave' found as ethnic killings spread

The UN says a mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found in Bentiu in the north of South Sudan, amid spreading ethnic violence.

The UN's human rights body said at least two other mass graves, in the capital Juba, had been reported.
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UN officials say at least 80,000 people have been displaced by the crisis - about half of them seeking shelter at UN bases - with fighting now having spread to half of the 10 states.
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UNHCR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the bodies in Bentiu appeared to be Dinka soldiers from the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25509075

[Indi Guy]

4. Too bad for Sudanese that theirs is not an oil producing state.

Then again, that didn't work out to well for the Iraqis. (Rethinking........)

[Jesus Malverde]

6. Which sudanese? South Sudan is full of oil...nt

[Jesus Malverde]

5. South Sudan Crisis Explained (Like You're an Idiot)

Helicopters evacuated more than a dozen U.S. citizens from South Sudan Sunday, but thousands of other foreigners will likely spend Christmas in the world's youngest country as an ethnic conflict there spirals toward civil war.

The United Nations estimates that nearly 1,000 people have been killed, and 45,000 displaced, in clashes between the Dinka and Nuer tribes since violence began Dec. 15 amid rumors of a power grab and a failed coup attempt.

In a deeply impoverished nation that sits on millions of barrels of untapped oil, the conflict is years in the making. It's complicated, but we promise to talk really, really slowly.


http://gma.yahoo.com/south-sudan-crisis-explained-39-idiot-202126363--abc-news-topstories.html

[TBF]

9. Ah.

So clean up is in process. Meaning that folks who are not friendly to whatever terms the multi-nationals want will magically disappear. Contracts will be finalized and life and capitalism move on. That's freedom. Or something.

[uppityperson]

7. k & r & tears

[Eugene]

8. Thousands dead in South Sudan violence, UN says

Source: BBC

24 December 2013 Last updated at 18:40 GMT

Thousands dead in South Sudan violence, UN says

Thousands of people must have been killed in the past week of violence in South Sudan, the top UN humanitarian co-ordinator there has told the BBC.

Toby Lanzer, who is in Bentiu in northern Unity state, said it had been "a devastating week for South Sudan".

Earlier President Salva Kiir said his forces had recaptured the key town of Bor days after it was seized by rebels.

The rebels are led by Riek Machar, of the ethnic Nuer, who has been battling President Kiir, of the Dinka.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25511595