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emains of 14 other people shot by opposition forces at different times between January 1
and 18, 2013, in Malou. Often those killed were old people. 123
Human Rights Watch was shown an area in the Laudier neighborhood where 13 civilian
bodies had lain, according to a local government official. Around 200 meters away, near a
riverside barracks, soldiers said they had buried another large group of civilians. Human
Rights Watch saw the remains of nine other people killed during the second period of
opposition control in several other neighborhoods in Bor town. It was unclear when other
people, whose remains were still dotted around Bor town in January, were killed. 124
St. Andrews Episcopal Church Compound
During this period of opposition control, forces attacked the St. Andrews Episcopal Church
compound and killed civilians. Soon after the government re-took control on January 18,
authorities found the bodies of 14 women in the church compound. Second-hand sources
in Bor town said that armed Nuer had entered the compound several times threatening the
women sheltering there before killing 14 of them. A journalist interviewed a woman in
Awerial in February who said she had been shot and injured in the incident but had
escaped the slaughter with other women from the compound. She described the killers as
young men between the ages of 15 and 20. 125
When Human Rights Watch visited the site on January 25, 2014, 11 of the bodies were still
in different parts of the compound. One woman had apparently been killed near the gate to
the compound, her rotting body covered with a blanket, while three others were close to a
small residential building. Six were in a room, the floor covered in the stinking fluid of
123 Human Rights Watch was shown the remains of Chol Moch and his son Abordi, a child, after they were shot dead by a
group of Nuer, one in a uniform. Another man, Moch Garang, had been shot in the back about 40 meters away during the
same incident. Human Right Watch was also shown the remains of a couple, Deng Arok and his wife Akuol Mabior and four
others Dhieu Athiang, about 70 years old, Dau Gak, an old lady Akol Deng and a man Yom Awot.
124 In the Block 10 neighborhood, HRW confirmed that a woman, “Adau”, and her daughter, who was too ill to flee, were shot
together in a room in their house. In Block 8 HRW found evidence of the killing of two women, Tholunj Mach and Amor Deng,
and a man, whose body neighbors found after the government retook Bor and burned because it smelled bad. In Block 9
Human Rights Watch was shown the grave of 70-year-old Gabriel Mabior Ngeng, and the bodies of an old couple Ngor Aman
and his wife Tir Lueth killed in their house. A woman who had recently returned to the Langbar C neighborhood said that at
least three people, Amom Beek, whose body she had helped bury, another man Maliet Manyiel and a woman Mary Anei, who
were both buried in mass graves by government officials were killed in the second period of opposition control. In another
case, a mother of four told Human Rights Watch how armed youth killed her 70-year-old mother during the second period of
opposition control.
125 Jessica Hatcher , “Try Not to Look Away From these Terrible Killings in South Sudan”, War is Boring, February 10, 2014
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