South Sudan: Thousands Of Women Raped And Sexually Assaulted.
Women who survived described how their husbands were killed before they were gang-raped by government soldiers.
One of the survived Woman said, "My husband was following a short distance behind us,"
"When he came and found these men on me, he told them to stop," she said as she described how five government soldiers gang-raped her, along with four other women.
"When he came and found these men on me, he told them to stop," she said as she described how five government soldiers gang-raped her, along with four other women.
"They grabbed him immediately and killed him with a knife."
"They tied a blindfold on my face," another rape survivor said. "They took all of my possession and stripped me," she added.
"Three of them were all on me. After, I grabbed my baby and left naked. Now, I have nothing."
Ken Scott, a war crimes prosecutor who has worked on tribunals for many conflicts, also added, that the sexual violence in South Sudan is the worst he has ever seen.
"It's such a high level of incidents, widespread, been going on for a substantial period of time, not isolated incidents, [and] one can only conclude that war crimes involving sexual violence are taking place," Scott said.
"How do we get convinced they are not being told to say weird things about the SPLA?"
But rights groups say they have documented widespread sexual violence in South Sudan.
A report by Amnesty International in July found that "thousands of South Sudanese has been subjected to sexual violence including rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation, torture, castration, or forced nudity."
The report found that the perpetrators were from all sides of the conflict.
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"This is pre-meditated sexual violence on a massive scale," Munthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty's regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said in a statement during the report's release.
"Women have been gang-raped, sexually assaulted with sticks and mutilated with knives," Wanyeki said.
Amnesty called on the government to "take deliberate measures to halt this epidemic of sexual violence".
After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan descended into war in December 2013, pitting President Salva Kiir's troops against those or rebel leader and former Vice President Riek Machar.
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