Opinion| Genocide denied: Ethnic cleansing, state violence, and international silence in South Sudan

In the United States, Evangelical Christians united as a powerful pressure group, advocating on behalf of persecuted Christians in South Sudan. South Sudan Genocide:The Polish-Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin, who taught law at Yale and Duke Universities, coined the term genocide in 1944. On December 24, 2013, at 13:35 GMT, the BBC reported emerging evidence of mass ethnic killings in South Sudan. ConclusionThe crisis in South Sudan was a destruction intended to subjugate the Nuer community to accept the regime. The 15 December events were the South Sudan government’s plan of ethnic cleansing in Juba, particularly suited to such a strategy.