A/HRC/40/69 created division among these opposition groups, resulting in an ever more fractured situation in Central Equatoria. 78. One particularly outrageous attack occurred in Goli in May 2018. Goli is located in Central Equatoria state, approximately 30 km to the north-west of Yei town along the YeiTore-Maridi road. While the Government holds both Yei and Tore, SPLA forces do not exercise control in the territory between and surrounding the towns, including the Goli area, and SPLA-IO move freely. 79. Emmanuel Christian College is located in Goli. Its compound includes a clinic, a chapel and residences for teachers and students. Since the July 2016 conflict, it has offered only primary-level schooling, as the main college was moved to Yei for security reasons. Since 2016, the College has hosted approximately 4,000 internally displaced persons in its compound. 80. On the morning of 14 May 2018, a large number of SPLA soldiers from the Presidential Guard Tiger Division based in Tore launched an attack on the College, ostensibly searching for weapons and “rebels” in the compound. They rounded up and separated men and boys from the women and girls, questioning the men about weapons and threatening to kill them. A number of men were thereafter detained and beaten by soldiers with the butts of guns and sticks. 81. Ten men and boys were ultimately shot and killed, four of whom – two students, a watchman and an internally displaced person – were lined up and executed at point-blank range near the chapel and three others killed near the dormitories. A 12-year-old boy was shot in his bed and had a stick forced up his anus. Two others were also killed: an internally displaced person and a watchman who was shot while making his morning tea. The Commission documented two cases of rape by SPLA soldiers, one of them involving two soldiers. 82. The soldiers also looted the compound. According to reports received by the Commission, as the soldiers left after their 12-hour attack on the College, “they were shooting in the air and celebrating in jubilation”. Violations and alleged crimes: findings 83. The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that both SPLA and SPLA-IO were responsible for killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, rape, beatings and looting in Central Equatoria in 2018. In particular, the SPLA Presidential Guard Tiger Division based in Tore committed killings, rape, beatings and looting at the Emmanuel Christian College on 14 May 2018. These acts amount to serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law, and should be investigated and prosecuted as war crimes. C. Western Bahr el-Ghazal state 84. Western Bahr el Ghazal is an ethnically mixed state, comprising several groups, including Fertit, Luo and Dinka, who have a history of conflict. Since the beginning of the current conflict, Wau town has been consistently under Government control. The presence of opposition forces in the areas south and west of Wau – known as the Wau Triangle – has resulted in intermittent fighting there since late 2015. The Commission, in its previous report, described a number of outbreaks of violence and human rights violations in Wau town since 2015. 85. In the first half of 2018, the Wau area remained relatively stable; however, on 3 June, a new SPLA Fifth Division Commander arrived in Wau. Within two weeks, and as the negotiations for the Revitalized Agreement gathered speed, SPLA launched a series of attacks in the Wau Triangle, seeking to dislodge SPLA-IO from the area. 86. Over the course of five months from mid-June 2018, there was sporadic fighting in the Mboro, Bagari and Bisselia areas between SPLA and SPLA-IO. In the course of this offensive, SPLA engaged in a concerted campaign against the civilian population in the 11

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