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SPLA: UN report on atrocities in Juba lacks evidence

JUBA (18 Jan.)

Col. Santo Domic, deputy spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army
(SPLA), has slammed the UN report which accused government troops of
committing grave human rights violations including killings and gang rapes
in the capital Juba during and after the fighting that occurred between 8
and 12 July 2016.

The report published by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the UN
Human Rights Office said that throughout the fighting between the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement/Army  in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO),”the belligerents blatantly
ignored international human rights law and humanitarian law.”

Domic told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the report filed by the United
Nations lacks evidence, saying the UN Mission in South Sudan and the UN
Human Rights Office should take the victims who accuse the SPLA army of
committing atrocities to court.“The victims should go to the court and open
cases against the perpetrators, if the accused are members of the SPLA
army, they should come and identify the perpetrators, if they are from the
national security, they should do the same thing,” said Domic.

For his part, William Gatjiath Deng, the official spokesman of the SPLA-IO,
denied involvement of their forces in the atrocities committed during and
after the fighting in Juba.“The SPLA-IO forces were not part of it, because
when the clashes erupted in Juba everybody knows what happened, were
clashed with the government forces and we left Juba, but the government
forces went and raped international aid workers,” said Gatjiath.

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