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decomposing bodies. In another hut a woman had hidden in one last desperate act before
being killed, her hand sticking out from under the bed.
Bor Hospital
Nuer gunmen reportedly killed several people in the Bor hospital. During visits after the
government retook the town, authorities told journalists and Human Rights Watch that 13
people were killed inside the hospital, and showed desiccated bodies of victims around
the compound. However, aside from one case in which a woman was shot in her bed, there
was no clear evidence that all the victims were killed inside the compound, nor when they
were killed. Journalists who visited on January 19, 2014, saw at least eight bodies in the
hospital, including the woman who had been shot in her bed. 126 Human Rights Watch
visited the hospital on January 25, and saw three bodies being moved into a mass grave in
the hospital grounds together with stinking sheets and mattresses. 127 Officials said 10
other bodies were already in the mass grave.
Attacks on Nuer Civilians by Government Forces
Some 19,000 people fled to the Bor UNMISS base when fighting broke out. Most of this
population, largely Dinka, left the camp after the government retook Bor on December 25,
leaving behind some 5,000 people, mostly ethnic Nuer.
According to displaced Nuer in the camp interviewed in early April, government soldiers
harassed the Nuer in the base and attacked them during periods of government control.
During the first period of government control, displaced residents said government forces
killed a teacher, Sudan Kek, near the UN base and a doctor, Lul Kuajien, who was shot on
his way to the hospital in the town, some distance away from the UN base. Human Rights
Watch received reports from Nuer and UN officials that in at least one case government
security forces had entered the camp and removed a Nuer man during this period.
Three gunshot victims, all Nuer, also said that they had been shot at by Dinka soldiers
during the initial defection period. 128 A fishmonger said he and other Nuer were
126 Mark Lowen, “South Sudan Conflict: Inside the Ghost Town of Bor”, BBC News Africa, January 21, 2014.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25819895. Staff from the Medecins Sans Frontieres medical relief organization
found two severely decomposed bodies in the hospital well later in January.
127 The bodies were later removed from this mass grave, bagged and then buried in a mass grave in another part of the town.
128 Human Rights Watch interviews, (names withheld) Juba, February, 2014.
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