South Sudan conflict: Women and girls raped, 'burned alive' and killed by militias as war reaches new levels of 'brutality and intensity'
30 June
South Sudan’s armed forces tortured, gang-raped and burned alive scores of women and girls in a brutal escalation of the on-going conflict, a new United Nations report claims.
The UN report states “at least” 172 women were abducted, while an additional 79 women and girls were sexually assaulted during a spate of violence notable for its “brutality and intensity” in an area of the world already characterised by vicious conflict.
Violence in the northern Unity region of the young nation, already suffering after 18-months of vicious civil war, errupted again in April with terrifying results for the local populations, the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMiss) notes in the report.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...vels-of-brutality-and-intensity-10355954.html