{"id":2635,"date":"2014-02-21T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2014-02-21T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:47:30","slug":"un-says-civilians-bore-brunt-of-ethnic-violence-that-likely-killed-thousands-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/21\/un-says-civilians-bore-brunt-of-ethnic-violence-that-likely-killed-thousands-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says civilians bore brunt of ethnic violence that likely killed thousands in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_80388232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2637\" alt=\"shutterstock_80388232\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_80388232-300x142.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_80388232-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_80388232.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>The United Nations says in its first report on human rights abuses during the conflict in South Sudan that civilians bore the brunt of ethnic violence that likely killed thousands.<\/p>\n<p>The report says thousands more were subjected to rape, arbitrary arrest, torture and the looting and burning of their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan said Friday&#8217;s interim report covering the first six weeks of the crisis from Dec. 15 to Jan. 31 offers a &#8220;snapshot&#8221; of the violence perpetrated by forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, who is an ethnic Dinka, and rebel soldiers loyal to dismissed former vice-president Riek Machar, who is an ethnic Nuer.<\/p>\n<p>During more than 500 interviews, it said, &#8220;witnesses, victims and government and security officials reported the deliberate targeting of civilians, both nationals and foreigners&#8221; in killings and other abuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations says in its first report on human rights abuses during the conflict in South Sudan that civilians &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[461,431,459,460,458],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-human","tag-rights","tag-south","tag-sudan","tag-un","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}