War Consumes South Sudan, a Young Nation Cracking Apart
"Why is it that we had to fight all these years and end up here?" SUDAN 300 Miles Darfur Region Blue Nile CHAD
White Nile ETHIOPIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC SOUTH SUDAN Juba Yambio Yei AFRICA UGANDA KENYA South Sudan DEM.
Americans, especially powerful Christian groups, cheered on the South Sudanese rebels during their decades-long liberation battle to split off from the Arab-dominated government of Sudan, which southerners simply called "The North."
But South Sudan is going down the North’s same bloody road.
United Nations officials said that in December, government soldiers, commanded by Dinka officers,
had burned down a string of villages outside Yambio and massacred scores of civilians.
Blaming the South Sudanese government and rebels for intentionally blocking lifesaving
supplies, United Nation officials said more than one million people could die.
REP. OF CONGO Lake Victoria Darfur Region SUDAN Blue Nile White Nile ETHIOPIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. SOUTH SUDAN Juba Yambio Yei UGANDA DEM.
In Yei, another town in the Equatoria region, United Nations officials said
that government soldiers chopped up babies and threw the body parts in a river.
Analysts say South Sudan has become shockingly similar to Darfur, the vast, western region of Sudan
that plunged into conflict in the mid-2000s and became a global byword for atrocities against civilians.
