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A conflict (which has also been called a civil war) in South Sudan began on the evening of
15 December 2013, at the meeting of the
National Liberation Council meeting at Nyakuron, when
Opposition leaders Dr.
Riek Machar,
Pagan Amum, and
Rebecca Nyandeng, voted to boycott the Sunday
December 15, 2013 meeting of the
NLC.[33]
President Salva Kiir ordered
SPLM Major General Marial Ciennoung, commander of the
Presidential Guard (
The Tiger Battalion) to leave the meeting venue and return the barracks to disarm the troops. After disarming all ethnicities within the guard, Marial ordered that the
Dinka members be re-armed.[33] His deputy, from the Nuer ethnicity, began to question this order and a fight ensured when surrounding officers saw the commotion. The Nuer soldiers also re-armed themselves.[33]
Fighting erupted between the Dinka elements of the Presidential Guard and the Nuer elements. This lasted from Sunday night until Monday afternoon.
Civilian casualties began when the Dinka elements of the SPLM began targeting Nuer civilians in the capital city of
Juba.[33]
President Salva Kiir has called it a coup attempt and announced that it had been put down the next day, but fighting again erupted on
16 December and spread beyond the capital, Juba, to the region around
Jonglei which is prone to ethnic instability, largely along ethnic lines.
Early estimates stated that at least 1,000 people were reported to have been killed[4][34] and over 800 other people were injured.[35] in Juba but this number has now been cited to be much higher than initially thought as
Human Rights Watch article cites eye witness accounts of large numbers of bodies in Juba on
December 17, and their removal in trucks to an undisclosed location
December 18.[36]
Eye witness accounts also cite SPLM Dinka troops assisted by guides in house to house searches to Nuer homes and killing civilians in Juba.[36]
Similar door to door searches of members of the Nuer ethnicity have been reported in the government held
Capital city Upper Nile State,
Malakal.[37] A final death toll of civilian casualties in government held cities of Juba, Malakal, and
Bentiu has not been released.
Kiir blamed former
Vice President Riek Machar for instigating the "coup" but no evidence of a coup attempt has been found. Former Vice President Riek Machar has denied a coup attempt instead blamed Kiir for playing power politics. Bor was seized by the
South Sudan Liberation Army on
19 December. On the same day, a UN compound was stormed in
Akobo, Jonglei, resulting in the deaths of two
Indian UNMISS peacekeepers.[38]
UN Secretary General has also issued deep concern as UN staff have received threats from the body guards of
Senior government
Information Minister that demanded armed access to UN
Mission Camps where civilians are sheltering.[39]
Following this incident President Salva Kiir accused the UN of sheltering armed opposition forces in their UN Mission, which the UN has staunchly denied. Salva Kiir also accused the UN of an attempted take over of his leadership.[40][41]
February 10, 2014, UN base in Juba surrounded by armed government troops and policemen demanded the UN surrender Nuer civilians sheltering there.
SPLA spokesman
Phillip Aguer has not commented on the situation[42]
February 18, 2014, fighting between members of various ethnicities broke out within the UN Mission in the capital city of Upper Nile State, Malakal. Ten people have died.[43] It is not reported who is responsible for the deaths.