These clashes occurred between factions close to Vice President Riek Machar and the Loyal Army to President Salva Kiir, sworn enemies.
Le Monde with AFP
At least 440 civilians were killed between June and September 2021 in South Sudan in clashes between factions close to Vice President Riek Machar and the Fary Army to President Salva Kiir, according to a UN report published Tuesday 1 er March. The violence, which also injured and coached 74 kidnappings, touched the Tambura region, in the southwestern country.
According to the UN mission (UNMISS) and the UN Human Rights Office, the politico-ethnic clashes opposed the movement of Vice President Riek Machar (the SPLM / A-IO) and the South Sudanese Defense Forces (SSDF) Loyal to President Kiir “as well as their respective militias”. The report refers to at least 64 civilians victims of sexual violence, “including a 13-year-old girl who has been the victim of a collective rape to death”.
“At least 56 civilians, including 4 women” are always disappeared and “their fate and place of detention of these people are still unknown,” adds the document, which also mentions “looting and destruction of goods, the Children’s conscription, (…) hate speeches and incitement to violence among other human rights violations discovered by the investigation “. About 80,000 people fled their homes to escape the fighting, according to the UN.
Younger world countries founded in 2011, South Sudan sank into a bloody civil war between 2013 and 2018 opposing jurred enemies Riek Machar and Salva Kiir, who cost the lives of nearly 400,000 and forced. millions of others to flee their home.
A peace agreement signed in 2018 provided for the principle of power sharing within a national unity government in February 2020 with Mr. Kir as President and Mr. Machar as vice-president. But the provisions of the Peace Agreement remain largely inapplicated, in particular because persistent quarrels between the two rivals at the summit of the state.