“Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters: the litany of atrocities in South Sudan’s civil war is growing, with the international community apparently powerless to stop the fighting. As the world’s youngest nation prepares to mark its fourth year of independence from Sudan on Thursday, South Sudan finds itself in the ignominious position of being ‘lower in terms of human development than just about every other place on earth,’ according to a UN report documenting the ravages of the war.”
Source: No peace in sight as South Sudan sinks into ‘new brutality’ | News24
