| Date | December 15, 2013 |
|---|---|
| Duration | 4 days (15, 16, 17 and 18) |
| Location | Juba, South Sudan Key areas in Juba: Gudele, 107, New Site, Khor William, Jebel, Mangaten, Amarat and Thongpiny area |
| Also known as | Juba Nuer Massacre |
| Type | |
| Motive | Ethnic |
| Perpetrator | Dinka-led Government and Dinka SPLA Generals Salva Kiir Mathiang Anyoor Jieng Council of Elders |
| Deaths | 47,000 - 50,000, mostly Nuer people |
| Burial |
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| Displaced | 2.2 million IDP[citation needed] |
The Nuer massacre, which occurred from December 15 to December 18, 2013, was a well-organized, intentional mass killing perpetrated against thousands of Nuer civilians by Dinka SPLA soldiers, Presidential Guard - Tiger Division, and Mathiang Anyoor (Dut Ku Beny), supported by Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), orchestrated by the President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit, Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), and Dinka high-ranking military generals within the SPLA army in Juba. More than 47,000 Nuer civilians were massacred in four days between December 15 and December 18, 2013.[1] A couple of years later, the death toll was projected to be over 50,000 Nuer civilians as fighting rapidly engulfed the entire region of the Upper Nile.
The Nuer massacre sparked a wave of widespread anger among the Nuer people in Jonglei, Upper Nile, and Unity States and the rise of recurrent revenge attacks against Dinka by the Nuer White Army and the defected Nuer SPLA soldiers marked the beginning of the South Sudanese civil war.[2][3] This led to the expansion of UNMISS Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites across South Sudan which were originally established on 8 July 2011 with the intent of the Security Council renewing the UN resolution 1996 (2011) for an extended period, Since then the Security Council has been renewing the resolution consistently to remain in South Sudan.[4][5][6]
The Nuer massacre was termed as ethnic cleansing,[7][8] except the UK Government which has branded this kind of targeted mass killings based on ethnic line as genocide.[9][10]
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- ^ Ferreira, Adriana (2020-08-27). "War and Genocide in South Sudan". Cornell University Press. Retrieved 2024-06-08.
- ^ Krause, Jana (2019-10-20). "Stabilization and Local Conflicts: Communal and Civil War in South Sudan". Ethnopolitics. 18 (5): 478–493. doi:10.1080/17449057.2019.1640505. hdl:11245.1/1089c39b-be53-4dd5-8500-3d38516f5366. ISSN 1744-9057.
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- ^ Afriyie, F. A., Jisong, J., & Yaw Appiah, K. (2020)
- ^ War and Genocide in South Sudan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1-5017-5301-5.
- ^ "'Another Rwanda': UN sounds alarm over South Sudan". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- ^ "British official: South Sudan violence is genocide – DW – 04/13/2017". dw.com. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- ^ Kranz, Michal. "5 genocides that are still going on today". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
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