A/HRC/45/CRP.3 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 21

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