A/HRC/40/CRP.1 witness recounted how a newly-wed young woman was shot and killed because she refused to be gang raped.1161 Women and girls were also abducted by Government soldiers and affiliated militia and taken as “wives”.1162 Soldiers and militia looted people’s possessions including stealing their cattle and goats and proceeded to burn tukuls and villages.1163 One witness recounted that: Although all our possessions were looted, we were just glad to be alive. Personally, I lost my bed, my goats and children’s clothes. I had 35 goats which I managed to accumulate when my cows were stolen years before. The soldiers rounded up all of the goats in the village and left with them. I came out of hiding 10 days later. […] Our Tukul had been burned down by the soldiers, so we slept out in the open under a tree until we were able to build another tukul.1164 Satellite imagery analysis of the Mayendit and Leer areas shows that approximately 7,345 buildings were damaged or destroyed since the end of February 2018.1165 Most of the damage was documented in Leer County, where 3,788 structures damaged or destroyed were identified (see Damage map below at Figure 6). These horrific events have also been documented by the UNMISS Human Rights Division that found that at least 232 civilians, including 35 children, 50 women and 35 elderly people were killed between 16 April and 24 May. 1166 It further found that at least 120 women, including pregnant and lactating mothers, and girls as young as four years old were raped or gang raped.1167 It documented at least 15 incidents of abductions involving at least 132 women and girls.1168 Similar findings of gross violations were established by CTSAMM and Amnesty International.1169 The fighting and attacks on civilians resulted in massive displacement of the civilian population. In April alone, 7,000 people were displaced in and around Koch town. 1170 In May, 40,000 people were reported to have been displaced in Leer County, out of a total population of approximately 80,000.1171 This, at a time when the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system predicted over 70 percent of Unity State to be at Crisis, Emergency or Catastrophe (Phase 3-5) levels of food insecurity. 1172 Even as displaced and vulnerable civilians were the most in need of assistance, humanitarian organizations reported that their properties were looted and attacked in a number of instances, leading some to withdraw their staff supporting communities in need. 1173 1161 Witness 823, ERN 101653-101658, para. 15 Witness 828, ERN 101804-101810, para. 12; Witness 827, ERN 101811-101816, para. 10; Witness 872, ERN 101603-101608, para. 8; Witness 839, ERN 101626-101631, para. 8. 1163 Witness 841, ERN 101623-101625, para. 6; Witness 872, ERN 101603-101608, paras. 8, 9; Witness 873, ERN 101648-101652, para. 9; Witness 830, ERN 101593-101597, para. 9; Witness 839, ERN 101626-101631, para. 8; Witness 792, ERN 101503101507, paras. 8, 9; Witness 825, ERN 101848-101855, para. 18. 1164 Witness 828, ERN 101804-101810, paras. 13, 14. 1165 UNOSAT, “UNOSAT analysis of destruction in Western Bahr el Ghazal State and Unity State”, South Sudan, 23 January 2019, ERN D116708-D116714. 1166 UNMISS/OHCHR, Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Southern Unity April-May 2018, para. 26. 1167 UNMISS/OHCHR, Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Southern Unity April-May 2018, para. 30. 1168 UNMISS/OHCHR, Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Southern Unity April-May 2018, para. 32. 1169 CTSAMM, Report 2018/22, Violations against Civilians including SGVB, in Southern Unity State April-May 2018, 7 July 2018; CTSAMM, Report 2018/25, Fighting in Thonyor, 26 July 2018; Amnesty International, “‘Anything that was breathing was killed’ War Crimes in Leer and Mayendit, South Sudan”, 2018. 1170 OCHA, South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot, April 2018. 1171 OCHA, South Sudan: Humanitarian Snapshot, May 2018; Danish Refugee Council, Rapid Assessment Report for Leer Town Temporary Protection Area (TPA), 21 May 2018. 1172 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, South Sudan: Key IPC Findings: January-July 2018. 1173 MSF, “People caught in the frontlines of intense fighting in country’s north”, 31 May 2018; ICRC, “South Sudan: Relief operations postponed after gunshots fired at ICRC compound”, 23 April 2018. 1162 146