A/HRC/45/CRP.3 rich agriculturally, with usual crops including tomatoes, sweet potatoes, “sim sim” grain, sorghum, and groundnuts. Residents recalled harvesting the crops for both consumption and sale.143 82. Two days prior to the attack by SPLA soldiers, approximately 16 soldiers were deployed to Tagoti Vimoi village on 3 November 2018 to conduct reconnaissance.144 SPLA soldiers dressed in green uniforms bearing the flag of South Sudan entered Tagoti Vimoi and approached a woman, asking her where her husband was. After telling her “We know you are all married to rebels”, they began beating her with their rifles until she bled.145 The soldiers also stole 12,000 South Sudanese Pounds from her and some of her clothing. They next took her baby’s clothing off and, when they saw she was a girl, they returned her to her mother exclaiming that they would have killed her child if she had been a boy.146 83. Following the reconnaissance missions, SPLA soldiers launched their attack on Tagoti Vimoi between approximately 5.00 and 7.00 a.m. on 5 November 2018.147 The Commission was told that there were no opposition fighters in the village at the time of the attack. Witnesses recalled hearing heavy vehicles preceding the attack,148 forcing some residents to flee into the bush.149 84. As they fled, one witness recalled hearing soldiers screaming, “'Shoot them, catch them! Shoot them, catch them!”150 Some men and a woman were apprehended by SPLA soldiers and taken to a Government base in Ngo Baggari.151 At least one woman and a deaf man were shot and killed during the attack.152 85. In order to deter civilians attempting to flee on bicycles and motorbikes, soldiers in uniform were stationed along the road leading from Bagarri to Tagoti Vimoi and they looted the civilians’ motorbikes and any possessions that they were carrying.153 Those who were able to flee described hiding behind a hill and watching SPLA soldiers go in and out of tukuls and collecting sacks of harvested crops, including groundnuts and dried okra, and laying them on the ground outside.154 They also stole dozens of chickens and goats.155 After plundering civilian possessions, they ransacked the village setting “each of the tukuls on fire,” and carried the plundered sacks of grain and other possessions to a location near a stream close to the village.156 86. Displaced civilians recalled trekking through the bush for two days before arriving at the Lokoloko IDP settlement in Wau,157 where living conditions were totally inadequate to meet their basic needs. For example, one displaced woman at Lokoloko described how, despite an international humanitarian organisation providing modest amounts of porridge flour, she still did have not access to food for days at a time.158 In ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 5. ERN 101909 – 101913, para. 7; ERN 101920 – 101924, para. 8. 145 ERN 101909 – 101913, para. 7; ERN 101920 – 101924, para. 8. 146 ERN 101920 – 101924, para. 8; 101909 – 101913, para. 7. 147 See, e.g., ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 6; ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 5; ERN 101783 – 101787, para. 5. 148 See, e.g., ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 8. 149 ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 8. 150 ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 8. 151 ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 11. 152 ERN 101909 – 101913, paras. 9-10; ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 9. 153 ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 8. 154 ERN 101783 – 101787, para. 6; ERN 101864 – 101869, paras. 6-7; ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 13; ERN 101909 – 101913, para. 12. 155 ERN 101920 – 101924, para. 6. 156 ERN 101783 – 101787, para. 6. 157 ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 12. 158 ERN 101864 – 101869, para. 14; see also ERN 101870 – 101875, para. 13. 143 144 22