He said they were taking revenge after a military defeat
A rebel official in South Sudan and a Roman Catholic priest say a number of people have been killed in the town of Wau because of their ethnicity.
The rebel,Dominic Ukello, told the BBC that government troops and an allied militia were targeting members of small ethnic groups seen as supportive of the rebels.
He said they were taking revenge after a military defeat.
A local priest, Father Moses Peter, said as many as 5,000 people had taken refuge in the Catholic church in Wau. The armed forces denied responsibility for the ethnic violence, saying it was carried out by rebels and their sympathisers.
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