It has been revealed that South Sudan's army and allied militias
"abducted, torched and gang-raped girls" during fighting against rebel
forces, a UN report says. Investigators found that at least 172 women and girls
were abducted and subjected to sexual violence, it added.
One woman was "dragged out of her hut and gang-raped in
front of her three-year old child", the report said. The UN Mission in
South Sudan (Unmiss) said abuses during the 18-month civil war had reached a
new scale of intensity and horror in recent fighting in the oil-producing Unity
State.
"Survivors spoke of a campaign against the local
population that killed civilians, looted and destroyed villages. Some of the
most disturbing allegations compiled by Unmiss human rights officers focused on
the abduction and sexual abuse of women and girls, some of whom were reportedly
burnt alive in their dwellings," it added.
The report added that in one incident, a woman was made to
hold red-hot coals in her hands in an attempt to force her to reveal the
whereabouts of rebel fighters. President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateng Wek Ateng
told the BBC he did not believe that troops would commit atrocities against
their own people.
However, he said the allegations contained in the report
were "too serious to ignore". The government would study the report,
and take appropriation, he added.
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