Mass atrocities are occurring in South Sudan, despite a peace agreement, and are partly driven by conflict over oil, according to UN (a United Nations) panel. The a United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan also said that foreign oil firms could be complicit in war crimes. Oil production in the region is dominated by three joint ventures between the state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) and the Chinese National Petroleum Company, Malaysia’s Petronas and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
Mass atrocities are occurring in South Sudan, despite a peace agreement, and are partly driven by conflict over oil, according to a United Nations (UN) panel. The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan also said that foreign oil firms could be complicit in war crimes. Oil production in the region is dominated by three joint ventures between the state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) and the Chinese National Petroleum Company, Malaysia’s Petronas and the Indian Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.