Amnesty Report: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's Breadbasket Into A Killing Field

[Elisabeth Janaina]

Amnesty Report: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's
Breadbasket Into A Killing Field
South Sudan - “If Men Are Caught, They Are Killed, If Women Are
Caught, They Are Raped”.
04 July 2017
Amnesty Report: Atrocities in Equatoria Region Turn Country's
Breadbasket Into A Killing Field
Recently arrived refugees from the Equatoria region waiting to be
registered at a refugee centre in northern Uganda, June 2017 © Amnesty
International

INTRODUCTION

Government and opposition forces in South Sudan’s Equatoria region,
have committed war crimes and widespread and serious human rights
abuses against civilians.1 Men, women and children have been shot,
hacked to death with machetes and burned alive in their homes. Women
and girls have been gang-raped, some after having been abducted.

Homes, schools, medical facilities and humanitarian organizations’
compounds have been looted, vandalized and burned down.2 Such
atrocities have already forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of
the region’s inhabitants, and are continuing. Many of the displaced
have fled the country and are now living as refugees in neighbouring
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Others are internally displaced within the region, living in fear of
the ongoing violence and in dire humanitarian conditions. Both
government and opposition forces have used food as a weapon of war,
denying civilians access to food as a means to control their movement
or force them out of their homes and off their land. As a result, in a
region previously considered as South Sudan’s breadbasket, the
remaining population faces acute food shortages and increasing
malnutrition.

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