The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says hateful ethnic rhetoric in South Sudan can have devastating consequences for entire communities, quickly spiralling into a cycle of revenge attacks,

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein sounds the caution after threats of violence against people from the Equatoria region and an Equatorian staff member of a humanitarian organisation was attacked in Aweil Town.
He urges President Salva Kiir and all political and community leaders to urgently and unambiguously condemn the incitement to violence and to take urgent measures to defuse the tensions.
The threats emerged in reaction to three attacks on buses this month killing an unconfirmed number of Dinka civilians travelling to Juba.

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