2aguy
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The U.S. and the U.N. screwed up again.........right under the protection of U.N. troops civilian aid workers in South Sudan were raped and murdered in a 4 our killing frenzy by Sudanese troops.........again, the U.S. failed to protect those who go into these hell holes.........
UN peacekeepers in South Sudan 'ignored rape and assault of aid workers'
The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.
“Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” she remembers him saying.
She didn’t really have a choice: by the end of the evening, she had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.
On 11 July, South Sudanese troops, fresh from winning a battle with opposition forces in the capital, Juba, went on a nearly four-hour rampage through a residential compound popular with foreigners, in one of the worst targeted attacks on aid workers in South Sudan’s three-year civil war. They shot dead a local journalist while forcing the foreigners to watch, raped several foreign women, singled out Americans, beat and robbed people and carried out mock executions, several witnesses told the Associated Press.
For hours throughout the assault, the UN peacekeeping force stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate calls for help. Neither did embassies, including the US embassy.
The Associated Press interviewed by phone eight survivors, both male and female, including three who said they were raped. The other five said they were beaten; one was shot. Most insisted on anonymity for their safety or to protect their organizations still operating in South Sudan.
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Then Gatluak was hauled in front of the group. One soldier shouted “Nuer”, and another soldier shot him dead.
From the start of the attack, those inside the Terrain compound sent email, text and Facebook messages pleading for help.
“All of us were contacting whoever we could contact. The UN, the US embassy, contacting the specific battalions in the UN, contacting specific departments,” said the woman raped by 15 men.
UN peacekeepers in South Sudan 'ignored rape and assault of aid workers'
The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.
“Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” she remembers him saying.
She didn’t really have a choice: by the end of the evening, she had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.
On 11 July, South Sudanese troops, fresh from winning a battle with opposition forces in the capital, Juba, went on a nearly four-hour rampage through a residential compound popular with foreigners, in one of the worst targeted attacks on aid workers in South Sudan’s three-year civil war. They shot dead a local journalist while forcing the foreigners to watch, raped several foreign women, singled out Americans, beat and robbed people and carried out mock executions, several witnesses told the Associated Press.
For hours throughout the assault, the UN peacekeeping force stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate calls for help. Neither did embassies, including the US embassy.
The Associated Press interviewed by phone eight survivors, both male and female, including three who said they were raped. The other five said they were beaten; one was shot. Most insisted on anonymity for their safety or to protect their organizations still operating in South Sudan.
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Then Gatluak was hauled in front of the group. One soldier shouted “Nuer”, and another soldier shot him dead.
From the start of the attack, those inside the Terrain compound sent email, text and Facebook messages pleading for help.
“All of us were contacting whoever we could contact. The UN, the US embassy, contacting the specific battalions in the UN, contacting specific departments,” said the woman raped by 15 men.
