A group of United Nations experts have urged the world body to establish an investigative team to look into alleged sexual violence in the conflict riddled country.
“The scale of gang rape of civilian women as well as the horrendous nature of the rapes by armed men belonging to all groups is utterly repugnant and what’s worse is that there is no sense of outrage about this horror,” Yasmin Sooka, the chairperson of the UN independent Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, said in a statement issued Friday.
The Commission, who have just ended a ten-day visit during which they met women survivors around the country, said that the situation requires urgent attention of the world.
Last month, a top UN official warned that South Sudan risks sliding into genocide if an intervention is not carried out soon.
The country slid into violence in December 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused his then deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup against his government. Machar denied the allegations but went on to mobilize a rebel force to fight the government.
A peace deal that was signed between the warring factions last year has continually been violated, and violence remains in the world’s youngest nation.
