South Sudan On Brink Of ‘Rwanda-Like’ Genocide, Commission Warns

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In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, women stand outside a U.N. Refugee Agency site in Yei, in southern South Sudan. The formerly peaceful town of Yei is now a center of the renewed civil war.

In a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, commission chief Yasmin Sooka reported murder and rape on an “epic” scale. “We are running out of adjectives to describe the horror,” she said.

(Image credit: Justin Lynch/AP)

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