Situation In South Sudan: Report Of The Secretary-General≪

  • Reference: S/2021/172
52. As at 1 February, UNMISS documented a total of 155 incidents that negatively
affected the human rights and protection situation, including arbitrary killings,
abductions, conflict-related sexual violence, arbitrary arrests and detention (including
proxy detention), torture and ill-treatment, forced military recruitment and the looting
and destruction of civilian property. These incidents resulted in at least 376 civilian
casualties (251 killed and 125 injured), including at least 21 women and 17 children. The
incidents were attributed to self-defence groups (116); SSPDF (11); SPLM/A-IO (7);
NAS (4); the South Sudan National Police Service (3); SPLM/A-IO Riek Machar
defectors affiliated with government forces in Wau (3); the National Security Service (2);
joint SSPDF and SPLM/A-IO Riek Machar forces (1); joint SSPDF and South Sudan
National Police Service forces (1); and clashes between SPLM/A-IO Riek Machar
elements and armed young people from the Mabanese community (1). Attribution for
six other incidents remained pending.

53. As in previous reporting periods, attacks carried out by self-defence groups
continued to account for most of the violence affecting local populations. By early
January, the overall number of such incidents, in particular in Lakes, Warrap and
Eastern Equatoria, had risen by more than 30 per cent compared with the same period
in 2020. This included a series of clashes around Juba involving armed elements from
various communities. Also of concern was an increase in the number of casualties
attributed to conventional parties to the conflict (up from 27 to 73 compared with the
previous reporting period), as well as the impact on local populations of rising
tensions and clashes involving SPLM/A-IO defectors affiliated with government
forces in areas of Central Equatoria, Upper Nile and Western Equatoria.


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