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| Children raped, castrated, thrown into fires in South Sudan: UN |
| 2015-06-20 |
| [Al Ahram] Warring forces in South Sudan have carried out horrific crimes against children, including castration, rape and tying them together before slitting their throats, the UN has said. "Survivors report that boys have been castrated and left to bleed to death... girls as young as eight have been gang raped and murdered," UN children's agency chief Anthony Lake said in a statement released earlier this week. "Children have been tied together before their attackers slit their throats... others have been thrown into burning buildings." Tens of thousands are believed to have been killed in the 18-month war, although there is no clear toll. At least 129 children were killed in May in the northern state of Unity, scene of some of heaviest fighting in the civil war, Unicef added. Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings across the country that has split the poverty-stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. It has been characterised by ethnic massacres, rape and the use of child soldiers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Kinda makes you want take up the burden. AmIrite? Didn't think so. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-06-20 15:28 |
| #4 It's a cultural thing. Who are we to judge? /riiiight |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-06-20 10:26 |
| #3 Let me guess, they told the police to back off too? Explain to me again, the 'evils' of colonialism. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-20 08:42 |
| #2 'The Heart of Darkness." |
| Posted by: 2015-06-20 03:10 |
| #1 Africa. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-20 02:40 |