UN human rights experts say they are deeply disturbed by what they describe as atrocities committed by all sides in the conflict in South Sudan.
Following a 12-day visit, they said the deprivation and range of sexual violence were hard to describe.
Young men said they were gang-raped or forced to rape relatives while family members looked on. Several soldiers raped a 60-year-old woman and left her for dead.
People had to eat leaves from trees because there was no food.
About 1,000 people protested in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, earlier this month to call for an end to conflict.
The experts were told nearly everyone in South Sudan has a gun, resulting in an increase in deaths, which they described as a silent killing.
The catalogue of horror comes just a day after South Sudan’s warring parties signed a ceasefire.
All previous deals to end the four years of fighting have disintegrated.
-BBC
