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The UN human rights chief raised the alarm on Friday about South Sudan's rapidly deteriorating human rights situation, citing a surge in violence, arbitrary detentions, and hate speech since February.

Clashes between government forces (SSPDF) and opposition fighters (SPLA-IO), as well as allied militias, have killed at least 75 civilians, injured 78 more, and displaced thousands, according to a statement from the human rights office.

"The escalating hostilities in South Sudan portend a real risk of further exacerbating the already dire human rights and humanitarian situation, and undermining the country’s fragile peace process," Volker Turk warned, stressing: "All parties must urgently pull back from the brink."

The violence intensified between May 3 and May 20 with reports of aerial bombardments and ground offensives by government forces targeting SPLA-IO positions in Jonglei and Upper Nile states, the office said.

Civilian areas, including a Doctors Without Borders medical facility, were hit. A counter-offensive by SPLA-IO forces on May 21 further displaced civilians.

Turk urged all parties to honor the 2018 peace agreement, protect civilians, and ensure humanitarian access. He also voiced concern about a wave of politically motivated detentions–at least 55 senior officials from the SPLM-IO, including the country’s first vice-president and several ministers, in March.

"These detentions appear arbitrary and must end immediately," Turk said, calling on South Sudanese authorities to allow UN monitors access to detention sites and to take urgent steps to curb hate speech.