Scores killed in revenge attacks in South Sudan

[Little Tich]

Source: CNN

Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Tribal revenge attacks in South Sudan have left at least 57 people dead and 52 wounded, a military spokesperson said.

"A group of armed Murle attacked three villages in Uror County, killing 57, mostly women and children," said Barnaba Benjamin, South Sudan's minister of information." "Fifty two were wounded, mostly women and children."

The recent attack in Jonglei state in South Sudan was carried out by armed members of the Murle tribe in an area inhabited by the Lou Nuer tribe.

The attack was in retaliation to attacks carried out earlier this month by 6,000 armed youth from the Lou Nuer on the town of Pibor, which is home to the Murle -- in a cycle of violence between the groups.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/14/world/africa/south-sudan-violence/

[demosincebirth]

1. Will these tribal feuds, in Africa or else where, ever end? So sad.

[Igel]

2. No.

We're primates. We form groups and then justify those in our group and work hard to make sure that we perceive those outside our group as subhuman.

We may sublimate our group allegiance to some larger, non-clan and non-blood-tribe geo-ethnic level. Then we get nation-states and nationalism. We can make it political and ideological, then we get the results in China or the USSR, or, to a lesser extent, the knee-jerk partisanship in the US and other countries. But we still have it.

Race, class, ideology, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, trade, education level, geography, urban/rural.... We're all in a set of tribes and we let our tribal allegiance color how we perceive people depending upon which "tribe" boundaries are most salient.

[demosincebirth]

3. We are unique primates with a free will. I can see your point in the primates without the 2% that

makes us different. I agree with your first paragraph only. But we are humans and all humans are not like you depict.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. Oh yes we are.

You have that Judeo-Christian (there's man, and then there are animals) thing going on. But it doesn't make it true. Only when you think of us as apes with sapience does our species' history make sense. We're not as evolved as we like to think. We're just clever.

[demosincebirth]

5. I respect your opinion, but I disagree with you. Lets just leave it at that. nt.