27/09/2014
South Sudan Conflict 'Quickly Turned Ethnic,' Obasanjo Tells UN Rights Council
Karin Zeitvogel Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo told a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting this week that the nine-month conflict in South Sudan took on distinct ethnic overtones early on. quot;The recent problem - the one of the 15th of December - started as a political disagreement in Juba, but quickly degenerated into an ethnic conflict... and it has led, particularly among two major ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer, to a very, very bad situation,quot; Obasanjo said. Obasanjo, who chairs an African Union Commission of Inquiry that is investigating human rights abuses in South Sudan, was reacting to a speech made by South Sudanese...
