UN: target civilians remain in southern Sudan

- Supporters of the government and the opposition in South Sudan continue to kill civilians, and abduct chase despite conciliatory language of both parties. That put the United Nations.

A conflict between President Salva Kiir and his former vice president, Riek Machar was two years ago launched the civil war raging still. The conflict stands out along ethnic lines. The Dinka tribe supports Kiir, who was one of them. Machar is in turn supported by the Nuer. The conflict has cost over 10 000 lives.

After months of struggle there last month signed an agreement on a transitional government. But come to the violence does not end. In three states in the northeast of the country are being systematically destroyed villages by government forces, said Ivan Simonovic, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at the UN.

Quot; One woman described how soldiers killed her husband, her strapped to a tree and her fifteen year old daughter forced to watch while she was raped , Simonovic said at least ten soldiers.

More than 2.3 million people have been displaced by the conflict. The UN offer six location protection to more than 200 000 people. In fighting in one of those camps came Wednesday eighteen people, more than ninety wounded. Among the dead were two employees of aid agency Doctors Without Borders.