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May 22nd, 2015 
David Schulberg
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein denounced on Friday the abuses of rights and lack of justice and accountability in South Sudan, where civilians are being killed in retaliatory attacks between two warring sides.
“For more than 17 months, women, men and children have been senselessly suffering through an entirely man-made catastrophe, living in the most inhumane conditions,” Zeid said, adding that the surge of violent attacks has forced a new exodus of displaced people into the UN-hosted camps across the country.
The warning came as fighting escalated around the oil town of Melut, where government forces carried out air and ground attacks to repel rebels from the key area in the Upper Nile State.
South Sudanese state TV showed videos of government tanks and helicopter gunships attacking the rebels in Melut on Friday.
According to reports, the operation, which is believed to be supported by the Ugandan army, has led to the withdrawal of rebels from the key oil town.
Zaid lamented that around two million south Sudanese have been “robbed of their homes, their livelihoods, their security, having lost family members to death and forced recruitment,” bashing the opposite sides for making “a terrible situation much, much worse.”
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