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attack on the UN base in Akobo and the April 17 attack on the UN base in Bor. The reports should also assess the response of UN peacekeepers during the attacks. • Ensure support to the AU Commission of Inquiry, including through the provision of names and any other relevant information about alleged perpetrators. • Establish a database of alleged perpetrators of serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law from both government and opposition forces for the purpose of use in the future for vetting any national army or security force. • Ensure any coordination with the South Sudan Police Service, other security forces or any assistance provided to government or opposition leaders strictly complies with the Human Rights Due Diligence Policy. To the United Nations Security Council • Establish a comprehensive arms embargo on South Sudan and a UN monitoring body or panel of experts to monitor and report on implementation of the embargo. • Impose targeted sanctions, including travel bans and asset freezes, on individuals responsible for violating the arms embargo or serious violations of international humanitarian law. • Press for fair, credible, impartial investigation and prosecution of serious crimes committed during the conflict in accordance with international standards. Taking account of the current limited capacity of the South Sudanese justice system, such investigation and prosecution could be pursued through a hybrid judicial mechanism, acceptance of the ICC’s jurisdiction by the government of South Sudan, or council referral of the situation in South Sudan to the ICC. • Work to ensure urgent deployment of additional troops authorized by the Security Council in December 2013. To Troop Contributing Countries • Ensure troops are appropriately equipped and supported and consistent with the mandate of UNMISS, are ready within their capacity and area of deployment to use military force to protect civilians under threat of harm including from SPLA, 9 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | AUGUST 2014
opposition soldiers, other armed groups or armed civilians both inside and outside of UN bases. To the UN Human Rights Council • Establish a mandate for a Special Rapporteur for South Sudan • Request the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to regularly and publically report on the situation in South Sudan, and on measures needed for protection of civilians and accountability for crimes committed. To the African Union Peace and Security Council • Support a UN Security Council arms embargo on South Sudan, the establishment of a UN panel of experts or monitoring body to monitor and report on violations of the embargo, and the implementation of targeted sanctions against individuals who are responsible for violating the embargo or for serious violations of international humanitarian law. • Ensure that the African Union Commission of Inquiry has sufficient financial and logistical resources and enough investigators, with appropriate expertise including South Sudan experts, sexual and gender based violence, criminal investigators and forensics experts, to investigate and document violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law and identify individuals responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law. To the African Union Commission of Inquiry in South Sudan • Focus resources on investigating the most serious violations, including some of the most serious incidents, identifying perpetrators of violations, and ensuring accountability for those responsible for the crimes. Ensure the African Union’s Commission of Inquiry report is made public. • Recommend fair, credible prosecutions for serious crimes committed in South Sudan in accordance with international standards of justice, acknowledging the limited capacity of the judicial system in South Sudan. Such investigation and prosecution could be pursued through a hybrid judicial mechanism, acceptance of SOUTH SUDAN’S NEW WAR 10
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office of the Sudd Petroleum Operat
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aftermath of the attack, around 30
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Attacks on Civilians by Government
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Human Rights Watch heard several re
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saw many bodies at the roundabout a
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V. Attacks on Civilians in Malakal,
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mobile and money. They pointed thei
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Images of a neighborhood in the sou
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On May 27, the UN Security Council
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Human Rights Reporting Public human
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VII. Justice and Accountability Leg
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no opposition forces or other milit
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during the crackdown. Several milit
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government and military leaders to
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journalists and freedom of expressi
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government submitted a declaration
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Since mid-December 2013, South Suda
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