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Thursday 27 Aug 2015 - 13:00 Makkah mean time-12-11-1436
(Picture from the UN report)
Juba, South Sudan (IINA) - The United Nations (UN) recently published a report stating that Israeli weapons are the most used ones in the continuing violence in South Sudan. The report, based on various field findings, noted that the Israeli-built weapons had been given to the local national security service even before breaking out of South Sudan’s 20 month long civil war, but are now being used by both security personnel and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
South Sudan has been in the midst of a civil war for the past 20 months. The UN has reported extensive human rights violations there during the war, such as drafting child-soldiers and burning villages. According to the report, using the Israeli weapons, the SPLA has been implementing a scorched-earth policy, and has been involved in indiscriminate killing, rape, pillaging, destruction of infrastructure and uprooting civilians from their homes, causing the deaths of tens of thousands, and displacing more than two million people.
It is noteworthy that a Washington Post global research in 2013 said that Israel came in 4th place in arms trades , and earned nearly $1,000 per capita from the trade, which is 10 times more than the per capita income of the country holding the 1st place in the trade.
AG/IINA
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