As South Sudan Troops Killed and Raped, U.N. Forces Didn’t Stop Them

As South Sudanese troops entered the Terrain Hotel and began attacking the civilians — many of them Western aid workers — who had sought refuge inside, frantic pleas for help to United Nations peacekeepers stationed less than a mile away went unanswered.

That was one of the sharply critical conclusions of a report, issued on Tuesday, into the performance of the peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, where in July government soldiers went on a killing, raping and looting spree in the capital, Juba.

That mayhem worsened South Sudan’s three-year-old civil war, overshadowed the fifth anniversary of independence and caused foreign aid groups to rethink their commitments there.

The peacekeeping mission’s disorganized response also laid bare the unwillingness, or inability, of its troops to protect civilians in South Sudan, further eroding the already tarnished credibility of United Nations peacekeeping.

A panel of outside investigators, appointed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said in its report that “a lack of leadership on the part of key senior Mission personnel culminated in a chaotic and ineffective response to the violence.” Mr. Ban said in a statement that he was “deeply distressed by these findings,” and reiterated his “outrage over the acts of violence committed in Juba in July and the continuing betrayal of the people of South Sudan by too many of its leaders.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/world/africa/united-nations-peacekeeping-south-sudan.html?_r=0

As South Sudan Troops Killed and Raped, U.N. Forces Didn’t Stop Them

As South Sudan Troops Killed and Raped, U.N. Forces Didn’t Stop Them

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