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In the late afternoon of December 17, officers from the NSS came to the building,
removed around 13 survivors from the room and took them to the Juba Teaching Hospital.
Two of the survivors said an NSS officer came in the morning before this larger group
came in the evening.
These survivors also said that they saw bodies being removed from the building and
placed in trucks before they were removed from the site. On the afternoon of December 17,
Human Rights Watch received a phone call from a witness, a Dinka resident of the
neighborhood who was close to the Gudele crossroads at the time of the massacre. The
witness said that he was watching as security forces moved “huge” numbers of bodies out
of a building near the crossroads into trucks.
A security official who visited the site on the morning of December 17, after receiving a
report of the mass killing reported seeing “an extremely large number of bodies” but said
he was too scared to investigate further. He said there was “no command and control at all”
and that it appeared that a number of the Dinka police and soldiers present on the scene
were drunk. Another senior police official, talking to Human Rights Watch two months after
the incident said that police officials had visited the site on December 17 and had been
shocked by the scale of the killing that had taken place.
Human Rights Watch spoke to several families who believe they lost relatives in the
massacre. A Nuer policeman told Human Rights Watch that 12 young men were taken from
his house in the Gudele area, close to the massacre site, on the afternoon of December 16.
He said he has still been unable to find out what happened to the men, but said he had been
told by a Gudele massacre survivor that at least some of them had been in the building. 83
A 46-year-old man who was shot and injured by soldiers in Mangaten said he saw soldiers
line up a group of 19 Nuer men from the neighborhood tie them with rope in two groups,
then march them away on foot. As of late December the men were still missing and
believed to have been killed in the massacre. 84
83 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, January, 2013.
84 Human Rights Watch interview, name withheld, Juba, December 29, 2013.
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