South Sudan Violated UN Arms Embargo, Amnesty Says
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South Sudan has continued to import and conceal arms despite a United Nations ban, according to Amnesty International.
While hundreds of rifles and small arms observed in the hands of soldiers were acquired prior to the embargo, “several bodyguards for prominent generals from government and opposition forces alike, who would have first access to newly acquired weapons, carried models of Eastern European weapons never before documented in the country,” the U.K.-based human-rights organization said in a report released Thursday.