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UN panel accuses regional South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes, beheadings

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view from a from a United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter shows a section of Leer town in Unity State, South Sudan in this photo released November 3, 2022. World Food Programme/Handout via REUTERS

South Sudan should investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine, UN rights experts said on Monday in a statement the government dismissed as a fabrication.

Investigators say sexual abuse has been used as a weapon by all sides in South Sudan's civil conflict, which erupted in 2013 and triggered Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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