By Alastair Leithead
BBC News, Yei, South Sudan
Government ‘Soldiers will kill you for no reason in Yei’
See video of victims testimonies here
People in Yei are afraid – afraid to speak out, and afraid they might be the next ones to be pulled from their homes in the middle of the night and to turn up dead in the river.
On one bedpost hung the metal ligature which had cut into his neck when he was strangled. Another piece of wire had been tied around his ankles.
One of the children who had been fishing in the river saw Isaac’s body.
Those who had not fled the village knew him well, and now they were waiting for his mother to arrive.
People in Yei are afraid – afraid to speak out, and afraid they might be the next ones to be pulled from their homes in the middle of the night and to turn up dead in the river.
Every day an average of 2,000 people are crossing into Uganda from the old-established states of Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria in the south of the country.