US Accuses Both Sides in South Sudan of Abuses

The United States has accused both sides in South Sudan’s violent political conflict, which has seen thousands killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since mid-December, of engaging in human rights abuses.   The accusations came in the State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, which was released this week in Washington.   A power struggle within South Sudan’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), turned into an armed...

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