South Sudan Rampage Toll May Be In Thousands Amid Threats Of Genocide -- McClathcy NewsNAIROBI, Kenya — Threats of genocide and ethnically charged rhetoric are roiling South Sudan's Jonglei state one week after a days-long rampage by a tribal militia forced 50,000 people from their homes and may have left thousands dead.
The commissioner of Pibor County, where most of the bloodshed took place, said that 3,141 people were killed, according to an initial assessment of the attack. But officials from the United Nations and the South Sudanese government cautioned that the number was unconfirmed and may be inflated.
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More News On The Violence In South Sudan's Jonglei State
Accounts Emerge in South Sudan of 3,000 Deaths in Ethnic Violence -- New York Times
'No evidence' of mass killings in South Sudan: UN -- AFP
South Sudan tribe kills 22 in new ethnic violence after their group targeted by rival tribe -- Washington Post/AP
South Sudan Ethnic Violence Leaves 24 Dead in Jonglei State -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Renewed South Sudan clashes kill at least 24 -- AFP
South Sudan: Murle Revenge Attack On Luo-Nuer 'Kills 60' in Jonglei's Akobo County -- AllAfrica.com
Stemming Ethnic Violence in South Sudan -- UN Dispatch
Cycle of violence plagues South Sudan -- UPI
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