South Sudan’s army is laying land mines in its battle against rebels, disregarding an international ban and signaling an “alarming escalation” of the 15-month-old war, a conflict monitoring group said.
A South Sudanese government representative on March 12 said that anti-personnel mines had been deployed around Nasir town in oil-rich Upper Nile state, the monitors from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, a bloc of seven East African nations, said in a report. IGAD urged government forces to remove the alleged new mines and take action against the officers responsible.
