location: Lainya
notes: In an incident in August 2016, seven armed SPLA or SPLA-affiliated soldiers attacked mourners at a funeral in the Lainya area, between Juba and Yei. The soldiers physically assaulted mourners demanding they admit that the deceased was a combatant affiliated with the SPLM/A in Opposition. When one of the mourners protested that the deceased was an old man who died of natural causes, soldiers took him and a woman to the nearby bush where they raped the woman in the presence of the man, and then shot her. The woman was later found dead. SPLA soldiers also shot the man in the stomach. He narrated what had happened hours before dying from his injuries.
target_text: location: Lainya, fatalities: 2