WMST 231 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Eve Ensler, North Kivu, Bentiu

• School: Towson University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WMST 231
• Professor: Beverly Shuman

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Then the soldiers killed her two sons, ages 5 and 7. When the uniformed men yanked her daughter from her hands next, mary didn"t think it could get any worse. Mary and her family were members of the nuer tribe in south sudan, caught up in a vicious power struggle between the new country"s president salva kiir, a member of the dinka tribe, and his vice. Their war, fought largely along ethnic lines, has turned the northern part of the country into a wasteland. At least 50,000 people have been killed, according to the u. n. , nearly 4 million face famine, and another 2. 2 million have fled their homes, recounting tales of civilian slaughter, gratuitous torture and even forced cannibalism. Mary and her family were among the tens of thousands of civilians seeking refuge at a u. n. peacekeeping base in the northern city of bentiu when they ran into. Kiir"s forces on the road in june 2014.