The United Nations Security Council missed an opportunity this week to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan, the Human Rights Watch decries.
The United States of America chose to postpone the discussion on arms embargo until June, the rights watch regrets.
An arms embargo could help reduce the unlawful attacks on civilians, the Human Rights Watch laments.
The rights group says arms purchased since the conflict began in mid-December, 2013 are enabling abuses in South Sudan among other factors.
South Sudan government has bought new weapons such as attack helicopters, the rights group discloses.
The Human Rights Watch says the government launched two rockets at a hospital in Kodok in July 2015, killing two people and forcing medical staff to take off.
The government also purchased amphibious vehicles used in Unity State to chase civilians into swamps in a deliberate effort to kill them, says the rights watch.
The Human Rights Watch says the SPLM/A-In-Opposition has allegedly been resupplied with small arms and ammunition from Sudan government.
The rights watch fears that the US decision may not reduce abuses against the civil population in South Sudan.
Angola, Senegal, Ethiopia, Spain, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have indicated support for the arms embargo.
It is a shame that the United States did not give arms embargo a chance, the Human Rights Watch declares.