A/HRC/43/56 further denied medical care to recruits in Luri, which led in at least one case to the preventable death the boy witnessed.94 The boy was able to escape from the Luri facility earlier this year. 95 6. The Commission further received credible information that County Commissioners in Gogral, Tonj, and Twic executed Government orders to recruit children, including through the use of recruitment centres in Gogrial.96 County Commissioners in at least three locales were said to have pressured local chiefs and cattle camp leaders to ask families within their communities to volunteer for conscription.97 In February 2019, the Executive Chief of Aguek (central Gogrial County), for example, requested that local families relinquish at least one fighting age male to join the SSPDF.98 When a 17-year-old boy was urged by his family to represent them in the recruitment drive, he began hiding. 99 Days later, he was surrounded in public by three soldiers armed with Kalashnikovs and donning matching khaki and green camouflage SSPDF uniforms bearing the national flag on their sleeves. 100 To force his submission, two soldiers beat him with black batons, while the third pushed him. 101 7. The boy was taken by the soldiers to an SSPDF Division 3 training centre in Aguek and described a Captain who bore three stars on his uniform as being in charge of the centre.102 Every day at 6.00 a.m. while at the centre, he and other recruits were awoken by SSPDF soldiers to go running. Though he recalled crying as he was marching, an assembly master watched over to ensure his subjugation. Recruits were insufficiently fed, receiving only beans and porso twice a day, and further forced into labour/made to collect firewood. 103 8. Soldiers training the youth in Aguek had informed the boy that he would later be taken to a main military training centre in Panachier, and that there he would be made to run, collect firewood, cook, and undergo further military training. 104 The Commission was able to confirm that the main SSPDF Division 3 training centre in Gogrial County is based in Panachier,105 and that SSPDF Division 10 forces also moved to Panachier in April 2019. 106 In Aguek, SSPDF Division 3 soldiers told recruits that, once they completed training in Panachier, they would be deployed due to insecurity in Gogrial (Warrap), Malakal, Abyei, and “other areas where there are land disputes”. 107 After five days, the boy attempted a risky albeit successful escape.108 B. Western Bahr el Ghazal State 9. As in Warrap State, the Commission received credible information that, beginning in November 2018, SSPDF Division 5 members began recruiting boys in Wau (Western Bahr el Ghazal), including homeless boys from neighbouring Gogrial who had escaped to Wau to evade recruitment. In April 2019, boys in Wau were taken to the SSPDF Division 5 Girinty Barracks.109 One witness recalled that, on 11 April 2019, SSPDF Division 5 Military Intelligence Officers rounded up homeless boys in Wau and placed them onto a truck, as they had been “ordered to take the children to Nyakuael” (Tonj).110 94 ERN 103205 - 103209, para. 14. ERN 103205 - 103209, para. 18. 96 ERN 102536 - 102540, para. 5. Recruitment centres were located in Kuac West, Kuac East, Kuac North, and Kuac South. 97 ERN 102536 - 102540, para. 6. 98 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 5. 99 ERN 102530 - 102535, paras. 5-6. 100 ERN 102530 -102535, para. 6. 101 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 7. 102 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 8. 103 ERN 102530 -102535, para. 10. 104 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 14. 105 See, e.g., ERN 102530 -102535, para. 14, ERN 102536 - 102540, para. 12; Confidential Meeting, 19 October 2019. 106 Confidential Meeting, 19 October 2019. 107 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 14. 108 ERN 102530 - 102535, para. 15. 109 ERN 102803 - 102810, para. 18; ERN 102797 - 102802, para. 16. 110 ERN 102797 - 102802, para. 16. 95 27