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October morning.125 SPLA soldiers began “shooting at people” and “firing into people’s
homes.”126 Two of her sons aged 7 and 10 years were killed by what she described to be
a “bomb blast”,127 and at least one other 5-year-old boy was killed by indiscriminate
gunfire.128
77.
The attacks forced the displacement of hundreds of civilians to Lokoloko IDP
camp in Wau town, where they lacked access to adequate food and shelter.129 By October
2018, 9,101 individuals and 513 households had arrived in the Lokoloko IDP camp,
including those displaced from Ngo Pere.130
5. Ngoko village (October 2018)
78. Continuing their pattern of systematic attacks in the preceding months, SPLA
soldiers next attacked Ngoko village on 3 October 2018, having come from the direction
of Mboro town131 and Ngo Pere village. Residents described how Ngoko was a civilian
area, with no opposition presence.132
79. In Ngoko, SPLA soldiers also burnt down houses, pillaged the year’s harvest, and
set fire to the neighbouring bush to where civilians had fled.133 They also burnt to the
ground the local market in Ngoko, which had served as the last sizeable market in the area
of Greater Baggari.134 Items looted from civilian homes by SPLA soldiers included
objects indispensable to their survival, such as farming products and foodstuffs including
honey and cassava. Many residents from Ngoko fled to Ngo Villa, some 28-30 kilometres
away,135 while others fled into the bush and to Wau town.136 Discussing the reason for the
attack, one man displaced from Ngoko noted, “I believe the attacks on places like Ngoko
were because the SPLA wanted to get their hands on the harvest. We saw them bringing
back looted bags with groundnuts and other agricultural products into Wau”.137
80. Hundreds of civilians displaced by the foregoing attacks fled to a makeshift shelter
at Toby Primary School in Wau.138 Over 10 days, between 7 and 17 October 2018, the
number of IDPs from Ngoko, Ngo Pere, and Mboro sheltering in the Toby primary school
in Wau increased from 80 to 620.139
6. Tagoti Vimoi village (November 2018)
81. Tagoti Vimoi is a small village in Western Bahr el Ghazal State which comprised
roughly 500 inhabitants prior to having been attacked on 5 November 2018.140 The village
was mostly comprised of civilians from the Fertit ethnic group. It is located between
Birinji, Baggari town, and Ngo Baggari,141 to the southwest of Busseri.142 The area is very
ERN 101557 – 101561, para. 9.
ERN 101557 – 101561, para. 6.
127 ERN 101876 – 101880, para. 5.
128 ERN 101557 – 101561, para. 7.
129 ERN 101876 – 101880, para. 8.
130
Confidential document, D115898 – D116021.
131 ERN 101925 – 101929, para. 8.
132 ERN 101925 – 101929, para. 8.
133 ERN 101925 – 101929, para. 9.
134 Confidential document, D120831 – D120833.
135 ERN 101587 – 101592, para. 23.
136 Confidential document, D120831 – D120833.
137 ERN 101930 – 101935, para. 18.
138 ERN 101788 – 101793, para. 5.
139 Confidential document, D115749 – D115897.
140 ERN 101909 – 101913, para. 4.
141 ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 5.
142 ERN 101920 – 101924, paras. 6 and 15; ERN 101909 – 101913, para. 4; ERN 101783 – 101787, para. 5; ERN 101870 –
101875, para. 6; ERN 101864 – 101869, paras. 5 and 10.
125
126
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