Africa: Stealing the Kingdom: The Sacking of Wau Shilluk By African Defence Review africandefence
Outside were dozens of new arrivals to the UN displacement camp, babies screaming, families baking under the 40-degree heat. Inside the meeting room, sun pounding the zinc roof, were raised voices.
But the UN-provided translator had asked the leaders representing different communities in the camp to keep their answers apolitical. They weren't happy."The land is the treasure of our lives," said another.There were camps like this all over South Sudan. But when government forces first attacked Malakal on Christmas Day in 2013, Nuer residents told us they were specifically targeted. Dinka residents were likewise singled out when the city fell to the opposition, back and forth over a dozen times.
In January 2009, a march through Malakal meant to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the peace agreement with Sudan devolved into violence as Shilluk and Dinka residents argued over which group should lead the way.
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