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the base, soldiers would not allow some males to go. “My husband was shot on the way
(from Manga to the Tomping UN base) with three others (men). … We were told to sit, they
were shot when we were sitting,” one woman told Human Rights Watch. 68 “If they saw a
male they started shooting,” another woman said, adding that four men moving with her
were shot dead and that her father who was elderly and had been lagging behind never
made it to the Tomping UNMISS base. 69
Women who left the UN base in search of supplies in the days following December 16 were
attacked. One woman described how when she went with a group of women to buy food on
December 17, soldiers opened fire on them in New Site area. The women scattered but one of
them had still not returned to the camp by December 27 and they believe she was killed. 70 In
the days immediately after the beginning of the crisis a woman walking with seven other
women to fetch water was attacked by a Dinka soldier who cut her hand with a machete. 71
On December 21, a woman reported that when she left the camp earlier that week to cook
food at a house in Juba town with three other Nuer women, soldiers in a car arrested them.
72
The women were then separated, and soldiers brought two of them to a house in the
Tomping neighborhood and shaved their heads. One of the women escaped through a
makeshift latrine next to the fence. The other three women have never returned to the
camp and are believed to have been killed.
Nuer women were also raped in the days following fighting in Juba. Eight Dinka young men
raped one woman in the week after the fighting. 73 Her Dinka boyfriend, a soldier, picked
her up from the Tomping base and then took her to a house where he and the other Dinka
men raped her and then dropped her back at the UN base, according to a close friend and
relative of the woman. Another young woman reported being attacked while collecting
money from Juba town on December 23. She said she was taken by Dinka men, including
soldiers, to a tent in Khor William where four soldiers raped her. 74
68 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January 9, 2014.
69 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January 9, 2014.
70 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, name withheld, Juba, December 23, 2013.
71 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, name withheld, Juba, December 27, 2013.
72 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January , 2014.
73 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January 10, 2014
74 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January 10, 2014.
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