South Sudan may be heading towards genocide
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Published 2016-12-29
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Widespread ethnic cleansing, burning villages, looming starvation, and gang rape “so prevalent that it’s become ‘normal.’” This is what UN experts found when they took a 10-day trip to the African country of South Sudan in late November.
Now they’re sounding the alarm, warning that South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is “on the brink of catastrophe” that could rival the horrors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In that conflict, some 800,000 people were slaughtered in the span of just 100 days while the international community watched, unable or unwilling to stop the bloodshed. Former President Bill Clinton has called his decision not to intervene one of the biggest regrets of his presidency.
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All Comments (21)
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Can't thank you enough for bringing light to these kinds of issues.
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Watching this now breaks my heart
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The Great Britain Independence Rule: Dividing countries that don't need a divide and uniting countries that should be divided!
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“The world stood by and watched the slaughter of 800,000 people” Sounds about right
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Control control control, then withdraw and leave a power vacuum and watch the region implode. Why is this pattern so prevalent..?
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Why must we always fight against one another because of ethnicity and race?
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To all African. Africa have a lot of resources. If you can put aside all of difference between tribes and religions, you can turn Africa into a very wealthy continent.
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>African country with more than one main ethnic group >Peace and unity choose one
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A little fact : President Salva Kiir's iconic black cowboy hat was offered as a gift by George W. Bush.
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USA: I'mma just pretend I didn't see that . . Any nation: Has oil USA: Y O U W E R E S A Y I N G ?
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ahm, i;m sudanese and it is a known fact that the divide between people in the north and south only came after the british colonization. British people used the "divide and conquer" strategy to divide sudan into closed states and separated the education and brohepeted south sudanese from coming into the north. Before that all people were living happily. It seems all the issues came with the white man. to add: the US stood to separate south sudan to promote "democracy", yet where is the US now? Where are they from the war and all people dying?
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One of the best Vox videos yet: informative, educative and clear. Exactly what you want to be aware of such issues.
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South Sudan is like a Child who are in still in elementary that where givin freedom by her parents to live on his own.
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These are the kind of videos I subscribed to Vox for! Great work on trying to make people aware of issues like this to get more people involved
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As a Nuer person, this breaks my heart. I can’t believe so many people are being killed that are the same as me, my family included.
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I'll never understand why ethnic groups fight it just doesn't make sense, and that's says alot because I'm from South Africa
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Vox the best channel in the world
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3:31 VP guy "I might run against you in the next election" President: "can't run against me in the next election if there ain't another election" starts a civil war again
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I'm South Sudanese, my parents came from the dinka tribe they left south sudan around 2000 and went to Egypt then in 2001 my parents came to america. Yeah, dinka and nuer mostly don't get along.
