• Villages on Fire: In this week’s lead story, South Sudan drops unlawful weapons on communities.
• Deported to Danger: What makes El Salvador’s prisons so dangerous?

These attacks, which essentially amount to planes dropping barrels of fire in populated areas, indiscriminately kill civilians, burn villages, and may amount to war crimes.

Incendiary weapons inflict excruciating burns and other physical injuries, which can lead to psychological harm and lifelong scarring and disability. They also cause fires that can destroy civilian structures like homes and other buildings. 

One woman who survived the attacks in Upper Nile described waking up feeling “the earth shaking…,” and ran outside … “only to see the village on fire.” She later saw the charred bodies of her neighbors and their two children.

The government’s continued attacks in communities in South Sudan is putting civilians deeper at risk and exacerbating the country’s worsening humanitarian situation.

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A judge recently ordered the Trump administration to bring back to the US a man that immigration officials say they deported to an El Salvador prison “in error”. 

Previously, HRW has documented how prisoners in El Salvador are at constant risk of abuse and even death. This is no place for US deportees. 

Learn more in our recent podcast.

On the Upside

Your good news wrap for the week:

• Last week, Mozambique paved the way for talks to discuss reforms following the country’s widespread post-election violence last year. 

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