South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment

[oberliner]

South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment, the UN rights office said Friday, describing the country as "one of the most horrendous human rights situations in the world."

"The assessment team received information that the armed militias... who carry out attacks together with the SPLA (South Sudanese army) commit violations under an agreement of 'do what you can and take what you can,'" the rights office said in a new report.

"Most of the youth therefore also raided cattle, stole personal property, raped and abducted women and girls as a form of payment," the report added.

In a report, the UN human rights office painted a harrowing picture of civilians suspected of supporting the opposition, including children, being burned alive, suffocated in shipping containers, hanged from trees and cut to pieces.

http://www.globalpost.com/article/6744906/2016/03/11/s-sudan-lets-fighters-rape-women-place-wages

[LeftyMom]

3. Pew says South Sudan is 60% Christian and 33% native African religions.

Sudan proper was majority muslim, but that's a big part of why South Sudan's Catholic and Anglican majority fought a civil war with them.

Nice try though.

[JFKDem62]

2. When will the human species become civilized? When will they evolve?

When will women stop being treated like objects and property?

[oberliner]

4. And when will the US care about what goes on in Africa?

It seems to barely make even make the news.

[JFKDem62]

7. Most Americans don't even seem to care about what happens in their own country.

Much less any where else.

The idea of being a global citizen is pretty much unheard of.

[oberliner]

9. We seem obsessed with what happens in our own country actually

It is wall to wall US election coverage it seems like.

[JFKDem62]

14. Good point, two years of political obsession, but more Kabuki theater than anything else. nt

[The2ndWheel]

12. Knowing this story, what is anyone supposed to do in response?

[JFKDem62]

15. I always have the same feeling, I wish I could do something but have no idea what.

Other than hoping that people on this planet will evolve.

[oberliner]

16. Here are some possibilities

Check out these organizations:

http://www.womenforwomen.org/what-we-do/countries/south-sudan

http://www.rescue.org/irc-south-sudan-0

https://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/crisis-south-sudan

[The2ndWheel]

13. Evolution doesn't work like that

And civilized is just a concept that human beings thought up. It's not like it's a state that exists and we found it.

[Rex]

5. HELLO AMERICA! ANYONE HOME!?

We are so pathetically transparent when it comes to what we care about as far as foreign policy goes. IMHO.

[oberliner]

6. South Sudan's Army Suffocated 60 People To Death In A Storage Container

South Sudan's militias targeted women, children and the disabled in horrific, mass-casualty attacks that included gang rape, mass suffocation and burning victims alive, according to a new United Nations report.

The UN Human Rights Office study filed on Friday found that all sides of the civil war in South Sudan were carrying out systematic violence against civilians. Children have been burned alive, allied government forces rape women as a form of payment and an estimated 10,553 civilians were killed between November of 2014 and 2015, the assessment team's research compiled late last year shows.

"The report contains harrowing accounts of civilians suspected of supporting the opposition, including children and the disabled, killed by being burned alive, suffocated in containers, shot, hanged from trees or cut to pieces," the UN Human Rights Office in the U.S.said in a statement on Friday.

“If you looked young or good looking, about 10 men would rape the woman; the older women were raped by about seven to nine men.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/south-sudans-army-suffocated-60-people-to-death-in-a-storage-container_us_56e2ea22e4b0b25c9181ad45

[Rex]

8. Yet we pissed away trillions in Iraq, because you know 'priorities' etc.

And where is our M$M on this? Oh right, all kissing Donald Trumps ass. Our inaction speaks for us.

[oberliner]

10. Someone needs to be held accountable for these human rights violations

Can the UN play a role here? Or are they part of the problem?

[Rex]

11. I don't know, you would think the UN could do something since they do

have their own ability to raise a force. These violations are beyond anything acceptable in this world. They literally are torturing and killing people just for the fuck of it with zero repercussions. None.

I've read this is a new civil war starting up, someone can stop it early imo if they so want to. I know we are all worried about Syria, but dam...women and children being buried alive not enough? Shame on us. Shame on the world.

[oberliner]

17. Sadly, the UN has had similar issues in the past

In terms of UN peacekeeping forces mistreating women and girls (to put it mildly).