According to the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) responsible for overseeing the ceasefire in South Sudan, the nation’s troops carried out a massacre in October in Unity State, where they imprisoned 50 civilians in metal shipping containers, suffocating them to death.
Reports of a large civilian death toll were investigated for months by the JMEC, who concluded it was the South Sudanese military that forced the civilians into the containers. This was one of several incidents in the report of civilians being killed by both government and rebel troops, but one of the largest and most high profile single cases.
South Sudan became an independent state in 2011, and fell into civil war in 2013, when the president accused his former vice president of an attempted coup. Supporters of the former VP became the rebels, and fighting has raged ever since.
Though there is a ceasefire in place now, both sides continue to accuse each other of violations, and there are constant concerns of the fighting resuming. Given how bloody the war has been so far, it’s a concern with potentially huge ramifications for the fledgling nation.
Sounds oddly familiar the only elements left out is who does US support.
In the invasion and take over of Afghanistan American led and Russian supplied Northern Front pulled off a much greater slaughter by using semi truck enclosed trailers to kill over 4500 loyalist forces.
Of course the later massacre by those same US led fed at a prison in Afghanistan that led to finding one surviving American convert to Islam but not a Taliban ,we do not talk of such even though the numbers far dwarf even the WWII atrocities of Nazi Germany.
We ope. Our government with prayers for peace and then pledge allegiance to the war flag..