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| Africa Horn |
| Bodies Litter Looted South Sudan Town |
| 2014-02-03 |
| [An Nahar] All that remains of Bor, a small market town that has changed hands four times in the latest South Sudan conflict, is an overwhelming smell of putrefying bodies and scattered trash that successive waves of looters ignored. Warped sheets of rusting corrugated iron roofing, apparently the remains of market stalls, lie in tangled heaps. Scattered across the street are the objects the looters did not want -- ragged bits of clothing, cardboard boxes, single plastic slippers. The ruins of the town, in which hundreds of non-combatants were killed, in some cases shot in the back as they fled, are eerily silent. "My son was killed when the enemies came attacking people. My brother ran with his family and my son was also trying to run but as he was running to hide he was shot in the back," recounted Majuer Garang, a tall, stoic man, under a tree on the outskirts of Bor where the dead remain where they fell, on narrow paths, or curled up under beds in their homes. Towards the town center a barefoot woman scurries across the main street, a table on her head. Residents have started trickling slowly back into town for a few hours just to see if they can salvage any belongings the looters left behind. |
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