South Sudanese soldiers raped children, burned people alive in their houses and hunted others for days using and $850 million military budget said the UN panel of experts monitoring the region on Tuesday.
The UN panel of experts into the conflict in South Sudan found that the government offensive between April and July this year had been “intent on rendering communal life unviable and prohibiting any return to normalcy following the violence.”
“The intensity and brutality of violence aimed at civilians is hitherto unseen, in what has been so far — without a doubt — an incredibly violent conflict, where civilians have been targeted by all parties to the conflict," the experts wrote in the interim reported submitted to U.N. Security Council members.
The Security Council is currently discussing a US drafter resolution that would place an arms embargo on South Sudan.