South Sudan's president on
Thursday denied allegations by the United Nations that ethnic
cleansing in the country's conflict is so bad that the stage is
set for genocide.
"There's no such thing in South Sudan. There's no ethnic
cleansing," President Salva Kiir told Reuters in the South
African city of Johannesburg.
Security guards prevented further
questions.
On Thursday, a UN commissioner reported that ethnic cleansing was ongoing in the war-torn nation.
The commission on human rights compared it with the Rwandan genocide and cited starvation, gang
rape and the burning of village.
"Everywhere we went across this
country we heard villagers saying they are ready to shed blood
to get their land back," commissioner Yasmin Sooka said in the statement.
