UN report details killings, rapes in South Sudan as peace deal is questioned

Churches and mosques have been centers of “searing” human rights abuses in South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging since 2013, according to a United Nations report.

President Salva Kiir’s government forces have been fighting with rebels led by his former deputy Riek Machar. The two sides have committed terrible atrocities, according to the report published in March.

Government spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny denied the charges leveled in the report, which describes civilians being killed in cruel ways. It also provides details of 1,300 women being raped from April to September 2015.