South Sudan government troops blamed for torching village homes: Report

‘South Sudan’s government troops destroyed thousands of homes in late 2016 as a three-year civil war continues in the country.
Monitors of the country’s troubled peace agreement said on Friday that three villages in the southern region of Yei visited by investigators had been evacuated from inhabitants and burned down.
The shaky peace deal was reached in 2015 between the government and rebel forces.
“In most cases the buildings were deliberately set on fire by government forces,” the report said.’
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