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AFRICAN UNION (AU) investigators accused South Sudan’s president of sparking tribal rivalries and mass killings before and during the country’s civil war.
The report by the AU team led by former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo said it had found mass graves of men from former vice-president Riek Machar’s Nuer tribe.
It accused President Salva Kiir of recruiting an irregular force from among his own Dinka tribe before the civil war in December 2013.
The report also questioned Mr Kiir’s claim that Mr Machar had plotted a coup d’etat against him, saying a skirmish between Dinka and Nuer members of the Presidential Guard had sparked the conflict.
A Sudanese Communist Party representative said: “We would not be surprised if the government of Sudan had something to do with supporting one side against the other” in order to to dissuade the oil-rich Abyei province to the north from voting to join South Sudan.
