A/HRC/45/CRP.3 chickens, harvested crops of sorghum, groundnuts, as well as clothes, and shoes.89 In a pattern mirroring that of the January to June 2017 offensive, SPLA members again looted these and other objects, and again burned down all civilian homes (tukuls),90 many of which had been rebuilt after the January to June 2017 offensive. One displaced farmer recalled how she had a farm in Wadhalelo where she had grown groundnuts, sorghum, maize, okra, cassava, and beans, and had a successful harvest. “Now I lost everything,” she reflected.91 Another man displaced from Wadhalelo believed, “They want to control this area, that is why this attack happened.”92 Wadhalelo was officially recaptured by SPLA forces on or about 11 June 2018.93 65. By 22 June 2018, SPLA forces had set up a base in Wadhalelo primary school,94 where the SPLA-IO (RM) were previously stationed (para. 63, above). Civilians recalled how Government forces were suspicious of the local community and used spies to report on their neighbours.95 As one woman explained, “When a house was pointed out [by a spy], the Government soldiers would go there, loot all of the possessions, and burn it down. Any children or family members remaining in the house were usually flogged”.96 In one instance, SPLA soldiers pillaged nine goats, 30 chickens, and household items from a Luo woman and her family, rendering them destitute. 97 After pillaging the items, the soldiers began beating her, her children, and her grandmother with pieces of wood. “I was beaten so severely that my arms were all swollen, and I had scars on my back and my buttocks”, she recalled.98 In addition to pillaging their property and beating the civilians, on 25 June 2018 SPLA soldiers also raped a woman aged in her late 30s.99 66. As of result of these attacks, hundreds of civilians were forced to flee from Wadhalelo100 and were displaced to a settlement in Hai Mesna in Wau where they endured inadequate living conditions and insufficient access to food and medical care, in particular those who had arrived with conflict-related injuries.101 Discussing the prospect of her ever returning to Wadhalelo payam, one woman noted, “If I return, and I start growing things, the soldiers will just come and take everything away again and then we need to flee again”.102 3. Mboro town and Ngozili (June, August, and September 2018) a. June 2018 67. Almost immediately after overtaking Wadhalelo payam, on 28 June 2018 Government soldiers attacked neighbouring Mboro town – inhabited primarily by Fertit ERN 101577 – 101581, para. 7; ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 16; ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 17. ERN 101577 – 101581, para. 8. 91 ERN 101582 – 101586, para. 4. 92 ERN 101577 – 101581, para. 7. 93 Military Movement and Offensive Military Operations in the Wau Area, Report 2018/24, CEASEFIRE AND TRANSITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS MONITORING MECHANISM IN SOUTH SUDAN (CTSAMM), 26 July 2018, at p. 1, available at https://jmecsouthsudan.org/index.php/reports/ctsamm-violation-reports/99-ctsamm-report-2018-24-military-movement-andoffensive-military-operations-in-the-wau-area/file. 94 ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 16. 95 ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 16. 96 ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 16. 97 ERN 101886 – 101890, para. 11. 98 ERN 101886 – 101890, para. 12. 99 ERN 101828 – 101835, para. 18. 100 Military Movement and Offensive Military Operations in the Wau Area, Report 2018/24, CEASEFIRE AND TRANSITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS MONITORING MECHANISM (CTSAMM), 26 July 2018, at para. 4.1, available at https://jmecsouthsudan.org/index.php/reports/ctsamm-violation-reports/99-ctsamm-report-2018-24-military-movement-andoffensive-military-operations-in-the-wau-area/file. 101 ERN 101799 – 101803, para. 12. 102 ERN 101582 – 101586, para. 13. 89 90 18