1965 Juba and Wau massacres

1965 Juba and Wau massacres
Location4°51′14″N 31°34′57″E / 4.85389°N 31.58250°E / 4.85389; 31.58250 and 7°42′00″N 28°00′00″E / 7.70000°N 28.00000°E / 7.70000; 28.00000
Juba and Wau, South Sudan
DateJuly 1965
TargetNon-arabs
Attack type
Weapons
  • Guns
Deaths+3,000
PerpetratorsSudanese Armed Forces

The 1965 Juba and Wau massacres are massacres committed by the Sudanese army in Southern Sudan during the First Sudanese Civil War, in the towns of Juba and Wau. The massacres were a part of wider attacks on South Sudanese civilians conducted by the then prime minister Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub.