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December 20th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused South Sudanese soldiers and rebels of carrying out ethnic killings following an alleged coup attempt over the weekend.
In a report released on Thursday, the US-based group detailed multiple cases where civilians were killed only based on their tribes.
“Soldiers in Juba sometimes asked individuals about their ethnicity before killing or releasing them, or identified them from facial scarification,” HRW said quoting witnesses.
Many South Sudanese traditionally wear tribal scarring on their faces and bodies.
“We are deeply concerned that ethnically-based attacks on all sides will lead to revenge attacks and more violence,” HRW’s Africa director Daniel Bekele said in a statement.
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands more have fled their homes to seek protection at UN bases since deadly clashes erupted between rival military factions in the capital city of Juba on Sunday.
President Salva Kiir has blamed the bloodshed on a coup attempt by his rival and former deputy Riek Machar, who is now on the run.
The battles have led to fears that days of heavy fighting could spiral into a civil war, with Machar loyalists seizing Bor, the capital of Jonglei State.
The clashes have also raised fears of ethnic violence, with Kiir coming from the majority Dinka people and Machar from the Nuer.
South Sudan’s government has repeatedly said the fighting is over politics, not ethnicity, but HRW’s report documents cases where security forces have “questioned residents about their ethnicity and deliberately shot ethnic Nuer.”
There are also “reports that ethnic Dinka may have been targeted in Juba and in the town of Bor by Nuer soldiers,” HRW added.
One woman in Juba told HRW she saw armed men from both Dinka and Nuer tribes “moving from house to house apparently searching for members of the other ethnic group.”
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