Content_paragraphs:  Throughout the civil war, political and military elites have deliberately targeted
  
  civilians with extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, forced displacement and the
  
  destruction of homes and property. Such violence has often occurred along ethnic
  
  lines, as ethnic groups were targeted as proxies for the political actors whom they
  
  were assumed to support. An estimated 383,000 civilians have died as a result of the
  
  civil war, including an estimated 190,000 from violent deaths. 1 
  
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   1  Francesco Checchi and others, Estimates of Crisis-attributable Mortality in South Sudan,
  
  December 2013–April 2018: A Statistical Analysis (London, London School of Hygiene and
  
  Tropical Medicine, September 2018).
  
  
  
   
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