South Sudan Walks Back Top General’s Genocidal Comments
'Not Official Policy... It Might Have Been a Slip of the Tongue'
South Sudan’s government yesterday tried to walk back comments by a senior general, after a viral video showed him ordering frontline troops to exterminate “even the chickens” in the territory of the Lou Nuer ethnic group.
The country’s descent back into civil war coincides with the passing of 1,000 days of war in neighboring Sudan and the first cross-border clashes between Sudan and Chad forces last week, marking a new era of grave regional instability not seen since the 1990s.