SOUTH SUDAN: ‘Gang rapes and beheadings: UN reveals new South Sudan abuses’, Associated Press, 23 February 2018

The witness accounts remain appalling. One South Sudanese man returned home after hiding from government soldiers to find they had blinded his mother, gouging out her eyes with spears. She had tried to defend her 17-year-old daughter from being raped by more than a dozen soldiers and didn't succeed. The family's father was beheaded. The latest report on human rights abuses in South Sudan's civil war, by a United Nations commission, identifies more than 40 senior military officials, 'who may bear individual responsibility for war crimes' and crimes against humanity. 'Gang rapes and beheadings: UN reveals new South Sudan abuses', Associated Press, 23 February 2018