War Consumes South Sudan, a Young Nation Cracking Apart<br />"Why is it that we had to fight all these years and end up here?" SUDAN 300 Miles Darfur Region Blue Nile CHAD<br />White Nile ETHIOPIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC SOUTH SUDAN Juba Yambio Yei AFRICA UGANDA KENYA South Sudan DEM.<br />Americans, especially powerful Christian groups, cheered on the South Sudanese rebels during their decades-long liberation battle to split off from the Arab-dominated government of Sudan, which southerners simply called "The North."<br />But South Sudan is going down the North’s same bloody road.<br />United Nations officials said that in December, government soldiers, commanded by Dinka officers,<br />had burned down a string of villages outside Yambio and massacred scores of civilians.<br />Blaming the South Sudanese government and rebels for intentionally blocking lifesaving<br />supplies, United Nation officials said more than one million people could die.<br />REP. OF CONGO Lake Victoria Darfur Region SUDAN Blue Nile White Nile ETHIOPIA CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. SOUTH SUDAN Juba Yambio Yei UGANDA DEM.<br />In Yei, another town in the Equatoria region, United Nations officials said<br />that government soldiers chopped up babies and threw the body parts in a river.<br />Analysts say South Sudan has become shockingly similar to Darfur, the vast, western region of Sudan<br />that plunged into conflict in the mid-2000s and became a global byword for atrocities against civilians.
