UN Report Details Abuses and War Crimes in South Sudan

Expand A soldier walks past women carrying their belongings near Benitu, northern South Sudan, February 11, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola Investigators have been documenting the horrors committed during South Sudan’s civil war since its outbreak, but a new UN report offers a detailed account of some of the most emblematic crimes committed there during 2016 and 2017, underscoring the necessity of holding the perpetrators to account. According to the report, issued by the Commission of Human Rights on South Sudan, fighters “are deliberately targeting civilians on the basis of their ethnic…

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