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South Sudan: Top Leaders Fail to End Abuses

South Sudan: Top Leaders Fail to End Abuses
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South Sudanese government and opposition leaders failed to halt atrocity crimes, including killings, rape, and forced displacement, or to hold those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch [HRW] said in a report released Tuesday.

South Sudan: Top Leaders Fail to End Abuses

The 52-page report documents the spreading violence and serious abuses against civilians in the Greater Equatoria region in the last year.

It focuses on two areas: Kajo Keji county, in the former Central Equatoria state, and Pajok, a town in the former Eastern Equatoria state.

Nine men - including President Salva Kiir, former Vice President Riek Machar, former army chief of staff Paul Malong, and six other commanders - should face sanctions in view of the mounting evidence of their responsibility for grave violations during the conflict, HRW said.

According to the report, the United Nations Security Council, European Union, and other states should impose sanctions on the nine men, and the Security Council should also impose a long overdue, comprehensive arms embargo on South Sudan.

"Four years into this crisis, gruesome crimes continue, with millions displaced and hundreds of thousands facing a man-made famine," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

"It's well past time to send a strong message to those in positions of power that atrocities will come at a price."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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