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