In South Sudan, Ethnic Attacks Spark Fears Of Civil War -- Sudarsan Raghavan and Karen DeYoung, Washington Post
JUBA, South Sudan — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to nearly double the number of peacekeepers in the world’s newest nation to more than 14,000 and urged swift action to end a violent political and ethnic conflict that threatens to become a full-blown civil war.
Amid reports of mass graves, extrajudicial killings and rapes, tens of thousands of civilians have sought refuge in U.N. base camps that in some cases were described as under siege.
There appeared to be no sign of a rapprochement between the crisis’s central players: President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and former vice president Riek Machar, who is a Nuer, as the ethnic killings threaten to overwhelm U.N., U.S. and African efforts to end the violence.
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My Comment: Like most failed states and/or regions that are deeply divided along sectarian/tribal factions .... South Sudan is now being torn apart.
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