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South Sudan’s government has not investigated the disappearances of the men or ensured accountability for them. In one example, in January 2017, Dong Samuel Luak, a prominent South Sudanese lawyer and human rights activist, and Aggrey Ezbon Idri, a member of the political opposition, were abducted from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. More than two years later, the United Nations Panel of Experts on South Sudan issued a report finding that South Sudan’s National Security Service was responsible for kidnapping them and that it is “highly probable” that the two were executed on January 30, 2017. In many cases, the military and National Security Service (NSS) were implicated in the disappearances. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported in 2019 that over 4,000 people were still missing since the war started and their fate or whereabouts remained unknown. These figures, based on interviews with families of victims, represent a fraction of the numbers of those missing in South Sudan. Remembering The Ones We Lost, a local initiative established in 2014, has documented 280 names of missing people since December 2013, some of whom were abducted or detained by security forces and meet the definition of enforced disappearance. The government needs to acknowledge that people are still missing and take concrete steps to investigate and hold those responsible to account.” “These unresolved cases are spreading fear and terror among the public. “People have vanished in South Sudan, and are presumed detained or dead,” said Jehanne Henry, East Africa director at Human Rights Watch. An unknown number of people are still missing. Since the conflict broke out in December 2013, the United Nations and other organizations including Human Rights Watch have documented major human rights violations including attacks on civilians and targeted killings, abductions, and detentions by the parties to the conflict. On August 30, the world marks the International Day of the Disappeared. (Nairobi) – South Sudan should investigate the fate and whereabouts of scores of victims of enforced disappearances and those still missing from years of civil war, Human Rights Watch and Remembering the Ones We Lost said today. Civilians fleeing Kajo Keji county, toward the southern border with Uganda, April 27, 2017.