Dirty War

Quote: South Sudan in Chaos, AU Report Says African Union investigators cite mass graves, forced cannibalism in South Sudan violence. A report by African Union investigators, released late Tuesday says mass graves have been discovered in South Sudan and cites horrific crimes against civilians, including forced cannibalism. .

Quote: Associated Press Oct. 28, 2015 | 6:40 a.m. EDT + More By JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — African Union investigators discovered mass graves in South Sudan and found evidence of horrific crimes, including forcing civilians to eat human flesh, according to a report released late Tuesday. President Salva Kiir's faction in the conflict is also accused of recruiting an irregular tribal force before the outbreak of war in December 2013. The report released late Tuesday also disputes that there was a coup attempt in December 2013 by former Vice President Riek Machar. Government troops carried out organized killings of members of the ethnic Nuer in Juba, the capital, the report said. When violence broke out, Machar, a Nuer, became a rebel leader. He and Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, recently signed a peace agreement. The African Union investigators, led by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, found that the conflict began on Dec. 15, 2013, as a skirmish broke out between Dinka and Nuer soldiers of the presidential guard following political tension between Kiir and Machar, who had been fired as Kiir's deputy the previous July. The report was scheduled for release months ago but its release was delayed by the African Union's Peace and Security Council. Hundreds of Nuer men were rounded up and shot, and mass graves were discovered. Perpetrators — described as government forces or their allies — allegedly tortured their victims, including by forcing them to jump in fires or eat human flesh, according to the report. The killings were "an organized military operation that could not have been successful without concerted efforts from various actors in the military and government circles," the report said. "Roadblocks or checkpoints were established all around Juba and house to house searches were undertaken by security forces. During this operation male Nuers were targeted, identified, killed on the spot or gathered in one place and killed." The report said Minister of Defense Kuol Manyang Juuk described a shadowy "group (that had) organized itself as Rescue the President. It killed most people here (in Juba) — from 15th to 18th. It was even more powerful than organized forces." The group comprised some Dinka soldiers who had been mobilized following a 2012 border crisis with northern neighbor Sudan. Some of these soldiers were moved south to Kiir's private farm near Juba in 2013 and later participated in the killings, the report said, citing interviews with informants. Amid the Juba killings, Machar fled the capital and mobilized an insurgency which committed revenge attacks against the Dinka, sparking a cycle of violence in Bor, Malakal, and Bentiu towns which also included rape and murder of people in churches and hospitals, according to the report. Those revenge attacks occurred so quickly they were also likely coordinated, it added. Kiir and Machar signed a peace agreement in August but fighting continues.

Quote: إجبار معتقلين فى جنوب السودان على أكل لحوم البشر جنوب السودان ماريان ميشيل // 2015-10-28 14:42:01 كشف محققون فى الاتحاد الإفريقى مقابر جماعية فى جنوب السودان، مع أدلة ارتكاب جرائم مروعة ضد المدنيين، بما فى ذلك إجبار معتقلين على أكل لحوم البشر. وأوضحت صحيفة "ديلى ميل" البريطانية أن تقرير الاتحاد الإفريقى أكد أن الصراع على السلطة فى جنوب السودان، الذى بدأ فى ديسمبر 2013، نتج عنه عمليات قتل منظمة من قوات الحكومة بحق مدنيين وجنود قبليين. وكان التقرير يشير فى هذا الصدد إلى محاولة انقلاب وقعت فى ديسمبر 2013 من قبل نائب الرئيس السابق رياك مشار، الذى ينتمى إلى قبيلة نوير، والرئيس الحالى للبلاد سلفاكير ميارديت، الذى ينتمى إلى قبيلة الدينكا. وخلص محققو الاتحاد الإفريقى، بقيادة الرئيس النيجيرى السابق أولوسيجون أوباسانجو، إلى أن الصراع أدى إلى قتل واعتقال المئات من رجال قبيلة نوير. وذكر التقرير أن الجناة عذبوا ضحاياهم، وأجبروهم على أكل لحم بشرى.