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In this thread, I will share some testimonies from Amnesty International's latest report on arbitrary detention and torture in South Sudan. Because when victims tell us what they went through, listening to them is the least we can do!
“Since I was arrested, I was tortured by NSS forces because I was accused of mobilizing youth. They put me under gun point and they came with ropes and they started to beat me using sticks and metal poles in my side and others were kicking me. They were NSS agents."
“…When you complained, they beat you. They used to tell us that ‘you are rebels and you do not deserve to be treated as you want…you stupid cockroaches, you must die in prisons…"
“They stripped us and removed our clothes and then started beating us.”
“I could not imagine that I could be treated like that in my own country…People from a tribe are arrested arbitrarily, taken even without being taken to court and charged for their wrongs…”
“If they think you misbehaved then they beat you, or if the soldiers come in when they are drunk they beat you. The torturing there is beyond words some people were beaten very badly. Some people are tortured even with electric shock People are beaten to the level of collapsing.
"They tied me and put me in the chair and beat me and they put it on your nipples [electric wires] and they shock – once in the morning and once at night. Sometimes they leave us and sometimes they do it because of an order”
"When they come to the container to kill someone, they will put the person that they want to kill to one side [of the container] and tell us to watch. Most of the indoor deaths are nails and sticks If you look, it looks like people are being killed and it is organized"
"The same night [I was arrested] they brought a dull knife and they pierced me and said that I was linked to the rebels and Nuer commanders in my family. They wanted me to talk"
“They used sewing needles…We were being interrogated while they were doing it. They would ask us, ‘Where is Riek Machar?’ There is still pain up to now in my testicles…I can’t have sex.”
“ They tortured me. They squeezed my testicles and sprayed my eyes with pepper. they twisted my middle finger and they inserted a burning matchstick into my anus.”
“…[T]he thing that is very difficult now is my mind. I am always having headaches and my joints are hurting and I have fever every day and there is no treatment.”
The report is available here amnesty.org/download/Docum…
