Kool Gatyen Pajock, 18 months old, lay in a South Sudan hospital as a physiotherapist wrapped bandages around his legs while his grandmother, Nyayual Chuol, watched over him.
Government forces shot the baby in the leg and killed his parents, Chuol said. She carried him 130 kilometers (80 miles) from their village to the hospital in Akobo, in South Sudan’s northeastern region near the Ethiopian border.
The family is among the 280,000 people displaced over the past two months by renewed fighting in Jonglei state between the government army, the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition.
"I have nothing to take care of this baby," Chuol said. "I’m worried about my four other children who scattered when the attack happened. I don’t know where they are now."
The violence threatens the fragile peace brokered in 2018 after a five-year civil war.
