Sudan: Rebels massacred hundreds of civilians when they captured an oil hub in South Sudan. They were hunting down men, women and children who sought refuge in the hospital, mosque and Catholic church.
Over 1 million people have left their homes since the fighting broke out in the area in December last year. In the beginning the encounters were between troops supporting President Salva Kiir and soldiers loyal to his despoiled vice president, Riek Machar. Later the fighting became an ethnic violence between Kiir’s Dinka people and Machar’s Nuer.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan said that the human rights investigators have confirmed the killings by the rebels. According to the Human rights investigators, the rebels were targeting places where a number of South Sudanese and foreign civilians had taken refuge and carried out the massacre after determining their ethnicity and nationality.

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