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At least four prisoners were shot in the prison, and the rest released. 111 Fighting in Block 4,<br />
close to a police base was especially fierce. The Langbar neighborhood was badly affected.<br />
The Kenya Commercial Bank was burned and the market looted. 112 Gadet’s forces who<br />
entered Bor on December 18 continued to fight pockets of government forces for one or<br />
two days, dominating the town until December 24.<br />
In the days before the government recapture on December 25, civilians who had not already<br />
fled Bor town, including elderly and disabled people, were purposefully shot at and killed by<br />
the defectors. A 40-year-old disabled war veteran from the Hai Machour area sent his family<br />
members to the UNMISS base for safety when the fighting began, but decided to stay in his<br />
house, believing – mistakenly -- that as a disabled person he would be safe from attack.<br />
Although he managed to hide from attackers, he witnessed two disabled colleagues and a<br />
mentally ill man shot dead: “On December 22 they killed two of my disabled colleagues, Piel<br />
Mayen, 65, and Keny Dabai, 40, both also veterans, as well as a mad person. They were in<br />
their homes when they were killed,” he said. 113 He also said 10 bodies were collected in the<br />
Hai Machour neighborhood, including Deng Mading, 50, Erjuk, 28, and Manyabol Mach, 40,<br />
a teacher. As elsewhere, the defectors forces also looted the neighborhood.<br />
An old man in the Hai Salam neighborhood described how six elderly friends were killed by<br />
defector Nuer soldiers moving through the area in the days after fighting broke out. 114 He<br />
said Achol Bol, Ayen Jok, Akur Nhial, Athou Nyantuc, Kuer Gak and a man he only knew by<br />
his first name, Majak, were killed in his house where the group were sheltering, surviving<br />
for days on a box of biscuits left behind by a fleeing trader. Two women told Human Rights<br />
Watch that they had survived being shot at by Gadet’s forces, long after government<br />
soldiers had left, on December 22, in two separate places in the town. 115 “They were<br />
targeting us, shooting us directly. They shot four other women, I saw their bodies,” one<br />
woman told Human Rights Watch. 116<br />
111 Human Rights watch interview, name withheld, Awerial, January 5, 2014. The UNMISS May 2014 human rights report<br />
reports multiple sources saying both prison staff and prisoners were shot, reportedly when the prison came under attack<br />
from opposition forces on the afternoon of December 18, 2013.<br />
112 Interview Awerial date. (woman from Marol market area). The May UNMISS human rights report indicates that it was Nuer<br />
opposition forces who raided the Kenya Commercial Bank and the Equity bank. They also looted and threatened traders.<br />
113 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld), Awerial January 5, 2014.<br />
114 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld), Bor, April 2, 2014.<br />
115 Human Rights Watch interviews (names withheld), Juba, Feb 5, 2014. Both women were still recovering from gunshot<br />
wounds from the separate incidents when they spoke to Human Rights Watch.<br />
116 The other witness said that two women had been shot dead in the incident she survived.<br />
49 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | AUGUST 2014