Juba, South Sudan Key areas in Juba: Gudele, 107, New Site, Khor William, Jebel, Mangaten, Amarat and Thongpiny area
Also known as
Juba Nuer Massacre
Type
Massacre
mass killing
Ethnic cleansing
Motive
Ethnic
Perpetrator
Dinka-led Government and Dinka SPLA Generals Salva Kiir Mathiang Anyoor Jieng Council of Elders
Deaths
47,000 - 50,000, mostly Nuer people
Burial
Mass graves
Dumped in the White Nile
burning the corpses
Displaced
2.2 million IDP[citation needed]
The Nuer massacre, which occurred from December 15 to December 18, 2013, was a well-organized, intentional mass killing perpetrated against thousands of Nuer civilians by Dinka SPLA soldiers, Presidential Guard - Tiger Division, and Mathiang Anyoor (Dut Ku Beny), supported by Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), orchestrated by the President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit, Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), and Dinka high-ranking military generals within the SPLA army in Juba. More than 47,000 Nuer civilians were massacred in four days between December 15 and December 18, 2013.[1][2][3] A couple of years later, the death toll was projected to be over 50,000 Nuer civilians as fighting rapidly engulfed the entire region of Upper Nile.
The Nuer massacre sparked a wave of widespread anger among the Nuer people in Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Unity States and the rise of recurrent revenge attacks against Dinka by the Nuer White Army and the defected Nuer SPLA soldiers marked the beginning of the South Sudanese civil war.[4][5] This led to the expansion of UNMISS Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites across South Sudan which were originally established on 8 July 2011 with the intent of the Security Council renewing the UN resolution 1996 (2011) for an extended period, Since then the Security Council has been renewing the resolution consistently to remain in South Sudan.[6][7][8]
The Nuer massacre was termed as ethnic cleansing,[9][10] except the UK Government which has branded this kind of targeted mass killings based on ethnic line as genocide.[11][12]
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^Limited, Alamy. "Juba, South Sudan, Africa. 11th May, 2014. The Tiger Battalion also known as the Presidential Republican Guards in South Sudan during the visit of president S. Kiir from Kenya. The commander of the Tiger Battalion Major General Marial Chanuong Yol Mangok AND general Peter Gadet from the rebels side, have been named by the United States government as the first South Sudanese to face US sanctions. Last month the US President authorized his cabinet officials to take measures to seize assets and impose travel bans on individuals in South Sudan responsible for human rights abuses or for inhibiting Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 2024-06-25.
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