A/HRC/43/56 Commission, “After that, I constantly lived in fear in [location concealed] so I came to Wau . . .”136 17. Thereafter, recurrent retaliatory attacks marked by killings, rape, abduction and the looting and destruction of property ensued across Kuajena, Rocrocdong, Udici and Alur in Wau (Western Bahr el Ghazal). As one witness told the Commission, “The cattle keepers started organizing themselves in groups . . . and every two to three days, we would hear about another incident.”137 On 1 April 2019, for instance, a deadly attack launched by cattle keepers on a primary school sheltering internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Luo community in Kuajena resulted in the death of at least 11 civilians. 138 Eyewitnesses indicated that State security forces who had been deployed to protect the IDPs failed to intervene during the attack.139 NSS officers subsequently dispatched to guard civilians sheltering in the school allegedly tortured them and compelled them to do forced labour. 140 UNMISS and CTSAMVM patrols sent to monitor the situation were repeatedly denied access to the school.141 Eventually, the NSS soldiers were withdrawn from the school in August 2019. At the time, the Commission was informed that the NSS would not be investigating the officers’ alleged misconduct. 142 18. On 18 May 2019, cattle keepers from the Dinka community wearing blue jalabiya launched another attack on a Luo community in Rocrocdong (Western Bahr el Ghazal) which killed at least two individuals, including an elderly village chief. 143 During the incident, the cattle keepers reportedly separated the men from the women and shouted ethnic slurs.144 They proceeded to shoot the village chief in the back of his head with a Kalashnikov rifle before burning the village tukuls and ordering the villagers to leave the land. As they fled the scene, the cattle keepers also set the village chief’s body on fire and looted food items, goats and cattle.145 During another similar attack in Rocrocdong, one 17year-old girl told the Commission, “The attackers did not do anything to me. However, I saw them taking girls. I do not know how many they took [or what] happened to these girls after they took them. I was busy running away with my children.” 146 19. The same month, the International Organization for Migration reported that more than 12,346 persons were displaced from the Jur River area, with 99 per cent of new arrivals citing conflict as the reason for their entry into UN Protection of Civilians site and other IDP collective sites.147 Thirteen per cent of these IDPs reported having housing or property destroyed.148 Meanwhile, half of all new arrivals reported having been displaced twice since 2013, while approximately 35 per cent indicated it was their first experience of displacement.149 20. When cattle keepers from the Dinka community launched another attack in Rocrocdong on 18 June 2019, one teenage girl who escaped abduction described her attackers as, “. . . mainly young boys wearing blue jalabiya . . . they were speaking the 136 ERN 102707 - 102717, para. 15. ERN 103249 - 103254. 138 ERN 102546 - 102552, para. 9; ERN 102664 - 102670, para. 12-13; ERN 102632 - 102652, para. 23. 139 ERN 102797 - 102802; ERN 102632 - 102652, paras. 24-25. 140 ERN 102872 - 102876, para. 12; ERN 102632 - 102652, paras. 21-31; and ERN 103269 - 103273. The Commission received information that female IDPs at the site were sexually assaulted but further investigations are needed. ERN 102699 - 102706, para. 19; ERN 102632 - 102652, paras. 25-31. 141 Confidential documents on file with the Commission 142 Confidential meeting, 1 August 2019. 143 ERN 102689 - 102698; ERN 102594 - 102600, paras. 9-13; ERN 103142 - 103145; ERN 102675 102679, para.11; ERN 102609 - 102617, para. 5. 144 ERN 102689 - 102690, paras. 10-11. 145 ERN 102689 - 102690, para. 4; ERN 102594 - 102600, paras. 9-13. 146 ERN 103137 - 103141. 147 Wau Displacement Sites: Influx from Jur River March-June 2019, IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix, 16 July 2019, available at https://displacement.iom.int/system/tdf/reports/20190816%20IOM%20DTM%20Jur%20River%20dis placement%20to%20Wau%20thematic%20report_1.pdf?file=1&type=node&id=6443. 148 Ibid. 149 Ibid. 137 30