“In his heart, Simon Yakida knew he was digging his own grave.”

— Nick Turse

Ghost Nation: An Ethnic Cleansing Campaign by the Government Threatens to Empty South Sudan https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/ghost-nation/ , July 2017

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