South Sudan: UN accuses belligerents of "deliberately" starving millions of civilians

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The UN released a damning new document on South Sudan on February 20, after several reports or similar statements to date have had no effect.

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Again, the vocabulary of the United Nations is unambiguous. " Millions of South Sudanese civilians have been deliberately denied access to basic services and many are deliberately starving, while national revenues have been diverted by the country's politicians ," says the Commission report. of human rights of the United Nations on South Sudan.

This fifty-page report details the abuses committed by the belligerents between September 2018, the date of the signing of the last peace agreement , and last December.

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It details the embezzlement of public funds for the benefit of " predatory elites who do not account ", but also the need of the population, racketeering, killings with impunity, rapes, the recruitment of children and among all these crimes, the use of hunger as a weapon of war.

" Civilians are deliberately starving, the report concludes, systematically monitored and silenced, arbitrarily arrested and detained, and are denied access to any real justice. "

This investigation is published whereas on February 22, the belligerents must, according to the peace agreement of 2018, to have set up a government of national union.

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