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For example, after the fighting was over on December 16 soldiers forced their way into one
man’s house in the Jebel market area and shot his uncle, a trader, and another trader
sheltering with them. 47 “We hid in the home and lay down under the beds during the
fighting. After the fighting we relaxed a bit and were lying on the beds and then the
soldiers came back (and attacked our home),” the man said. On the same day Dinka
soldiers pulled a pastor, Reverend Simon Nyang, from his house in Khor William and shot
him dead. “They just called him out and killed him. He remained in his house thinking he
is a pastor, and he is safe with the government soldiers,” a relative said. 48 The same day, a
Nuer civil servant witnessed government soldiers killing four Nuer men in their house in
the nearby Custom Market area. 49
Nuer homes in the Lologo neighborhood were also attacked. A 40 year old Nuer man, a
well-known trader in his neighborhood, interviewed by Human Rights Watch in hospital
while recovering from a gunshot wound in his leg, said Dinka soldiers attacked his house
in the afternoon of December16. 50 “It was Dinka soldiers and they knew mine was a Nuer
house,” he said.
Dinka soldiers went house to house searching for renegade Nuer soldiers, arresting Nuer.
A Nuer student told Human Rights Watch that he and his two friends were among 27 Nuer
men arrested from Nuer homes in the Khor William neighborhood on December 16 and
then detained at a police station. His two friends, he said, were never seen again and are
feared dead. 51
Nuer fled on the afternoon of December 16 from Lologo, Jebel Market and Khor William to
the UN House compound, the nearest of two UN bases in Juba town. While women and
children were allowed to pass through neighborhoods and along the main roads to the
base, soldiers stopped some of the men and arrested or killed them.
47 Human Rights Watch, telephone interview, (name withheld), Juba, December, 2013.
48 Human Rights Watch, telephone interview, (name withheld), Juba, December, 2013.
49 Human Rights Watch interview, (name withheld), Juba, December, 2013. The men who were shot included Jacko Long,
Machar Deng and Lual Biel. One man was not named.
50 Human Rights Watch, interview, (name withheld), Juba, December, 2013.
51 Human Rights Watch, interview, (name withheld), Juba, March 25, 2014. The student managed to persuade the soldiers
who detained him that he was from the Anuak tribe and was released after a night in the police station. He also said that
Nuer PG did also hide in the house he was in during the morning of December 16 before running out of the town.
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