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A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place.

“The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread destruction and looting, and child soldier recruitment,” the UN’s Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic told reporters.

The UN children’s agency Unicef added they too had “credible reports that children are participating in the conflict”, but gave no details on possible numbers.

The UN has accused forces of President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar of carrying out atrocities in the conflict that started on December 15.
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“We have heard that quite a number of child soldiers are being recruited in the so-called White Army,” Simonovic added, referring to an ethnic Nuer militia force that has rampaged across the eastern state of Jonglei, fighting alongside mutinous soldiers loyal to Machar in the rebel-held town of Bor

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