A US-based watchdog group says the blue helmets cowered under fire and teargassed civilians seeking shelter at their base.

The Centre for Civilians in Conflict known as CIVIC says the United Nations needs to ensure transparency and accountability for the inadequate response of its peacekeepers during the July crisis in Juba.

CIVIC says the UN Security Council should immediately impose an arms embargo, both to help protect civilians from further harm and in response to the national government’s obstruction of the UN Mission in South Sudan.

The US-based group says in its 84-page report that parties to the four days of intense fighting Juba killed and injured civilians in displaced persons camps.

Government forces also broke into a hotel and apartment complex to brutally attack international and national aid workers.

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