South Sudan: Bentiu atrocity will not be the last unless pleas for help are heard | James Copnall

From Global development | The Guardian Wed Apr 23 2014, 10:31:53

Humanitarian workers make desperate call for international assistance as numbers of wounded and displaced people soar

The massacre in Bentiu, South Sudan, has shaken even hardened humanitarian workers. The UN's development and humanitarian coordinator, Toby Lanzer, called it perhaps the most shocking circumstances he had faced. Civilians were killed in the town's main hospital, in a Catholic church and in the Kali-Ballee mosque. A week after the fighting, bodies still litter the streets.

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