Multiple Nuer women said soldiers threatened them because of their ethnicity or accused them of being allied with Machar. He said, ‘If I kill you now, you Nuer woman, do you think there is anything that can happen to me?”‘ one woman said. In the latest clashes in Juba, residents of the U.N. camp accused peacekeepers of running away when the camp was shelled. She was crying for help.” He and other witnesses interviewed insisted on speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals by soldiers if identified. JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting, and at least two died from their injuries, witnesses and civilian leaders said.

Source: National Post July 27, 2016 19:18 UTC