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Sudanese Soldier: Lainya County and Loka Round

sudanese soldier: I couldn't even bury him, she said recently from the safety of the Parolinya refugee settlement in northern Uganda, according to Hamilton Spectator. I knew that if I stayed for five more minutes, I would be next. Still, she pushed the door to her home open just far enough to see her dead husband's body slumped against a chair, dragged inside as a cruel joke by the South Sudanese soldier who had shot him multiple times in the chest. Saima found her husband dead in January, two days after troops loyal to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir attacked the village of Loka Round in Lainya County, some 100 km southwest of the capital of Juba. When it finally did, she hid with her five children in nearby brush. For months, Saima had followed the news of a government offensive, tracing the army's rampage through the country's southern equatorial regions and wondering when it would reach her. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.