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One young Nuer man described how soldiers rounded up 11 men from his Mia Saba
neighborhood at around 11 a.m. on December 16 and marched them through the streets at
gunpoint. As they moved, he said, the soldiers collected other men from Nuer houses until
there were between 50 and 60 men gathered at a small market in Gudele. The witness was
released with four others, perhaps because they were the youngest in the group, but said
the six others arrested with him are still missing and are believed to have been killed in
the Gudele massacre.
Other Attacks in Gudele
Human Rights Watch received reports of other cases of extrajudicial killings in the Gudele
area, especially around the Gudele crossroads, near the Gudele police building on
December 16 and 17. For example, according to an in-law, a civil servant named John
Bamum was stopped in his car and killed near the Gudele crossroads when he went to
check on relatives in Gudele during the night of December 15. 85
A Nuer civil servant working in immigration said he ran from his house in Khor William on the
morning of December 16 to the Gudele area to escape the fighting. On the morning of
December 17 soldiers stopped him with others in his group at the Gudele checkpoint and
demanded to see their identification documents. While he and another man who could show
student IDs were told to sit on one side, the other four, traders without IDs, were shot and
killed. The civil servant also said that he saw several bodies in ditches at the crossroads. 86
An east African woman said she saw the bodies of 15 of her Nuer neighbors killed in their
house in her neighborhood in Gudele, early in the morning on December 16, following
shooting in the neighborhood between Nuer and Dinka soldiers. She told a Human Rights
Watch researcher on December 17 that Dinka security forces in the neighborhood were still
not allowing the bodies to be moved. In a follow up interview later that week she said that
the bodies had since been removed by soldiers.
Three different eye witnesses, interviewed separately, told Human Rights Watch how seven
men were killed in the house of David Kojela, a soldier with the presidential guard, in the
Gudele neighborhood on the afternoon of December 16, by presidential guard soldiers, all
85 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January 2014.
86 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, December 27, 2013.
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