SOUTH SUDAN: Right Groups Urge President Obama to Support South Sudan Arms Embargo

Human Right
groups in South Sudan have urged the President of the United State of America,
His Excellency Barack Obama to support the arms embargo to the Country because
more weapons mean more fuel to the fire, more attacks on civilians, arbitrary
killings, rape, burnings and pillage.

 

According to
the Secretariat team leader at the South Sudan Action Network on Small Arms,
Geoffrey Duke, President Obama should ensure that 2015 is not a repeat of
horrific of 2013 and 2014 for South Sudanese.

 

He urged
President Obama to support a comprehensive United Nations arms embargo on South
Sudan’s conflicting parties.

 

The leader
lamented that the conflict looks set to continue, and the organizations are
concerned that further crimes under international law and serious human rights
violations and abuses are likely to continue.

 

Non-Governmental
organizations were calling for an arms embargo on South Sudan since early 2014.