South Sudan's Machar Denies Opposing War Crimes Court

Earlier this week, The New York Times published an op-ed bylined by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his rival-turned-First Vice President Riek Machar. In the article, they appeared to argue against creation of a proposed court, composed of both national and international elements, to try perpetrators of atrocities during the past 2½ years of civil war. Both sides of the conflict are accused of committing atrocity crimes, and accountability for perpetrators is a key demand...

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