British Minister: Genocide in South Sudan

British Minister: Genocide in South Sudan

World April 13, 2017 06:09

entebbe - The killings and atrocities in South Sudan are becoming more like genocide. Therefore, African leaders must take action. That the British Minister for Development Priti Patel said Wednesday after visiting the country.

'There are mass killings, people are going to be killed, villages burned and the tactics used by the scorched earth,' Patel said at a press conference she gave in neighboring Uganda.

In South Sudan, since July, the violence flared up again. 'The violence is related strains and based on the genocide', was recorded Patel. In the African country has been raging for years a civil war, where hundreds of thousands of people have been beaten in the flight.

In parts of the country dominated from February famine. According to Patel blocks sitting President Salva Kiir supplies. Patel Kiir in a meeting called to lift the blockade and to put an end to the violence. If Kiir Otherwise, the international community will intervene, said Patel.

South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011. Two years later collapsed rival leaders the youngest state in the world in a civil war. The gamecocks, President Salva Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar, concluded last year a peace agreement, but that was short-lived.

In July last year, fighting again broke out in the capital of Juba. In addition, government forces have executed civilians and participated in groupings of women and girls, according to the UN.

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