GENEVA: In an appalling revelation, the UN rights office stated today that South Sudan lets its fighters rape women as a form of payment. Calling the event “one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world,” it released a detailed report painting picture which would make the crudest cringe.
“The assessment team received information that the armed militias... who carry out attacks together with the SPLA commit violations under an agreement of 'do what you can and take what you can'. Most of the youth therefore also raided cattle, stole personal property, raped and abducted women and girls as a form of payment,” the report said. It also suspected civilians of supporting the opposition, children being burned alive, suffocated in shipping containers, hanged from trees, or cut to pieces. UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein warned that the brutal rapes were being used systematically as “an instrument of terror and weapon of war. This is one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world.”
Sudan has been locked in civil war since December 2013, prompting retaliatory killings.
