South Sudan: Investigate Apparent 2017 Killing of Activists

South Sudanese authorities should also allow independent ceasefire monitors, the UN Panel of Experts, and the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan access to the alleged detention site at Luri, the organizations said. 

The UN Panel of Experts report states that agents of the Internal Security Bureau of the National Security Service probably executed the two men. They apparently acted on the orders of the commander of the NSS training facility in Luri, the NSS commander of the Central Division, and ultimately, Lt. Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, the director general of the Internal Security Bureau of the National Security Service.

“Kenya and South Sudan failed miserably in their duty of care toward Dong and Aggrey,” said Seif Magango, Amnesty International’s deputy director for East Africa, the Horn, and Great Lakes Region. “Dong was registered as a refugee in Kenya and for him to be kidnapped in Kenya and taken to South Sudan to be executed, is appalling. Both governments must end the blanket denials now, tell the families and the world what exactly happened to the two men and bring those responsible to account.”

References

1. ^{^} South Sudanese (www.hrw.org)
2. ^{^} from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya in January 2017. (www.hrw.org)
3. ^{^} issued a report (www.undocs.org)
4. ^{^} Jehanne Henry (www.hrw.org)
5. ^{^} a Kenyan High Court ended its 24-month (www.hrw.org)
6. ^{^} consistently denied (radiotamazuj.org)
7. ^{^} had received credible reports (www.hrw.org)
8. ^{^} government’s arbitrarily arrest (www.hrw.org)
9. ^{^} subjected them to torture and other ill-treatment (www.amnesty.org)
10. ^{^} reform the National Security Service (www.hrw.org)