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| Ethnic cleansing underway in South Sudan |
| 2016-12-02 |
| [al-Manar] UN human rights experts on Thursday said “ethnic cleansing” was under way in South Sudan, after a 10-day visit to the world’s youngest country where violence has soared since a peace deal collapsed in July. “There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages; everywhere we went across this country we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed blood to get their land back,” said Yasmin Sooka of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan. “Many told us it’s already reached a point of no return.” |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Reality noow requires that the region be split into three states The impression I have is that separately each is too small to stand alone, never mind against a rambunctious Sudan; and clearly together they are unable to stand against a rambunctious Sudan because they will not stand together. Perhaps it is time to consider uniting each third with a neighbour big enough to stand again Sudan, rather than continue pointlessly pursuing independence. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-02 14:23 |
| #1 Unity in South Sudan has been since 1950 a tenuous thing. Reality noow requires that the region be split into three states: Bahr al-Ghazal (ethnic Dinka), Eastern (Nuer, Shilluk), and Equatoria (various tribes that want nothing to do with either Dinka or Nuer). Without some territorial resolution the bloodletting will continue ad nauseum. |
| Posted by: Heriberto Greper9897 2016-12-02 07:51 |