“Unless they are held accountable for their crimes, the ethnic violence will continue to engulf this young country, with UN peacekeepers left to pick up the pieces.”
— Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. Violence in South Sudan escalates as tensions mount between the Nuer and Dinka.
Armed groups in South Sudan are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in the most grotesque way imaginable, taking to the airwaves to incite mass-scale ethnic killings and rape.
VICE News Capsule - Thursday, April 3
In today’s capsule: A Syrian woman in Lebanon lit herself on fire after the United Nations discontinued her aid, a prominent islamist was killed in Kenya, protests Over China’s Maritime Aggression in the Philippines and an explosion at Cairo University killed a high-ranking police officer.