'Every Kind Of Norm Is Broken': U.N. Says Brutality In S. Sudan May Rise To War Crimes
Gang rapes, abductions and killings have grown commonplace in South Sudan, according to the Commission on Human Rights, whose new report outlines widespread violence in the country's ongoing conflict.
by Amy Held
Feb 21, 2019
2 minutes
Human rights violations and abuses that have grown routine against civilians and children in the world's youngest country, may constitute war crimes, according to a new report by the U.N.'s Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan outlining acts of brutality committed in 2018.
Nearly eight years after South Sudan gained independence from its northern neighbor, Sudan, a civil war has mired the country
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