Click to expand Image A South Sudanese soldier monitors the area as troops belonging to the South Sudanese Unified Forces take part in a deployment ceremony at the Luri Military Training Centre in Juba on November 15, 2023. Fighting between South Sudan’s military, the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF), the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO), and armed youth known as the white army has intensified in northern Jonglei since December 2025, displacing more than 100,000 people. The danger is compounded by rhetoric from senior officials including Gen. Johnson Olony, deputy chief of disarmament and demobilization of the SSPDF and leader of the government-allied Agwelek militia, who on January 24 was reported urging forces to “spare no lives… not even the elderly… not even a chicken.” Such language is an incitement to commit war crimes and echoes past atrocities where older people, and others unable to flee were shot, burned alive, or left to die.
Author: Human Rights Watch
Published at: 2026-01-27 22:23:42
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