South Sudan and UN failed to heed massacre warnings-Amnesty International

South Sudan and UN peacekeepers are being accused of failing to act on warnings of a massacre that killed more than 200 people in March. Amnesty International said authorities and the UN mission in South Sudan received warnings two weeks before the attack. ...that armed men were preparing to strike a town in county near the Sudanese border. The radical group says at least a thousand fighters from the Nuer ethnic group launched a four-hour assault on March 1st, killing more than 200 people, including children, and injuring many others. They told us that two weeks prior to the attack, they were getting warnings from their relatives in Mayom town, where the attackers hailed from. That men were gathering arms, that they were given ammunition, and that they were preparing for an attack. So two weeks prior to the attack happening, people in Abiemnom town, the location of where the massacre happened, were already sleeping around the peacekeeping mission's base for protection at night. The group's saved homes and the local market were burned, property was looted, and more than 230 structures were destroyed by fire. Most of the bodies were buried in two mass graves while the entire population was forced to flee. What we question strongly is the fact that UNMISS sent 40 additional, or around 40 additional Thank Peacekeepers to the base on the day of the attack, in the afternoon, so after the attack. So apparently these forces were available, you but had two weeks of prior knowledge. So we're asking why were these additional forces very not sent before the attack? Amnesty is now calling for investigations by the South Sudanese government and the UNMIS much. and for those responsible to be held criminally accountable. The world's youngest country has been plagued by civil war, poverty, corruption and intercommunal violence since it was formed in 2011.