South Sudan: Starvation Being Used As a Method of Warfare in South Sudan - UN Panel

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United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva)


Geneva, 6 October 2020 - Since gaining independence in 2011, the brutal conflict across South Sudan has caused incalculable suffering to the civilian population, resulted in staggering levels of acute food insecurity, and malnutrition, noted the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.
"With 7.5 million South Sudanese currently requiring humanitarian assistance, we have found that food insecurity in Western Bahr el Ghazal, Jonglei, and Central Equatoria States is linked directly to the conflict and therefore almost entirely human-induced," said Commission Chair Yasmin Sooka. "It is quite clear that both Government and opposition forces have deliberately used the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in these States, sometimes as an instrument to punish non-aligning communities, as in the case of Jonglei," she added.

South Sudan: Starvation Being Used As a Method of Warfare in South Sudan - UN Panel

Press Release - Since gaining independence in 2011, the brutal conflict across South Sudan has caused incalculable suffering to the civilian population, resulted in staggering levels of acute food insecurity, and malnutrition, noted the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.

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[Ryder]

This is actually nothing new if you look at African conflicts or civil wars. Starvation and famine has always been uses weapons of war to make the enemy bend on their knees.

Pretty awful way but the use of starvation can be found in manu wars like ww1 and ww2 in particular. Forget bullets when all it takes is to cut the food supply since humans cant survive with out food and water.