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Children 'forced to watch rape' in South Sudan | Children 'forced to watch rape' in South Sudan |
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Children in South Sudan have been forced to watch their mothers being raped and killed, the UN says. | Children in South Sudan have been forced to watch their mothers being raped and killed, the UN says. |
A report by UN human rights investigators says that 40 officials may be individually responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. | A report by UN human rights investigators says that 40 officials may be individually responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
It says civilians have been tortured and mutilated, and villages destroyed on an industrial scale. | It says civilians have been tortured and mutilated, and villages destroyed on an industrial scale. |
Conflict between government factions has continued in South Sudan despite a peace deal signed in 2015. | Conflict between government factions has continued in South Sudan despite a peace deal signed in 2015. |
Of the 40 senior officials identified as potentially responsible for atrocities, five are colonels and three are state governors. | |
The UN says the testimony gathered from survivors is "devastating", including some people being forced to rape family members "in cases reminiscent of Bosnia". | |
One woman said her 12-year-old son was forced to have sex with his grandmother, in order to stay alive. The same woman also saw her husband being castrated. | |
Another man saw his companion, a man, gang raped and left for dead in the bushes. | |
"Sexual violence against men in South Sudan is far more extensive than documented", says the head of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, Yasmin Sook. | |
"What we see so far is likely just the tip of the iceberg." | |
Another survivor, a pregnant woman in Lainya County, says she saw suspected opposition supporters being detained, tortured and then decapitated by SPLA fighters. | |
She was kept with the victims' decomposing bodies. One of them was her husband's. | |
The UN investigators are collecting evidence for use in future war crimes trials, and the report will be presented to the UN human Rights Council in Geneva. | |
But the court has still not been set up because South Sudan's parliament has not yet approved it. | But the court has still not been set up because South Sudan's parliament has not yet approved it. |