The Bor massacre was a massacre of an estimated 5,000 to 20,000 civilians in Bor on November 15, 1991 during the

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. The massacre was carried out mostly by Nuer fighters from SPLA-Nasir, led by

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, and the militant group known as the

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, shortly after Machar split off from the SPLA led by

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said at least 5,000 Dinka were killed, though the real number may have been higher. In the years which followed, an estimated 25,000 more died from

famine A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an Financial crisis, economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenom ...

as their cattle were either stolen or shot and the fighting had displaced them from the land they had once cultivated. At the time, Riek Machar described the incident as "propaganda" and "myth". In 2012, he publicly apologized for his part in the massacre.

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August 31, 2007 http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article23545. By Gatkuoth Lam.

Dinka The Dinka people () are a Nilotic ethnic group native to South Sudan. The Dinka mostly live along the Nile, from Mangalla-Bor to Renk, in the region of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile (two out of three provinces that were formerly part of southern ...

Bor

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