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The slaughter at Bentiu on April 15 – 16 may well be, as Toby Lanzer has declared, a “game-changer.” The use of “hate radio,” encouraging the killing and rape of Dinkas (and Darfuris), is too ominous an echo of Rwanda. It is doubtful rebel forces have command-and-control adequate to prevent future such atrocities.

Many of these people are looking at the grimmest possible future

Civilians in South Sudan continue to flee in all directions

Almost 100,000 South Sudanese have fled to neighboring Ethiopia

Inevitably, civilians suffer most from armed conflict

Competing armed groups make South Sudan one of the most dangerous places in the world

Survivors: People who were wounded in the Bentiu slaughter of April 15 – 16

The fighting and violence in South Sudan has exploded with shocking speed; and yet it continues to accelerate, with no sign the international community is prepared to protect large civilians populations acutely at risk or to ensure humanitarian relief is adequate.

The Nuer “White Army” is a young and only partially controlled militia force; they are responsible for some of the worst atrocities to date in South Sudan, although ethnic slaughter on both sides of the Dinka/Nuer ethnic divide is growing.

The Nuer “White Army”