Down steep steps underground and into the dark, the air is thick, smoky and hot in this bunker in soon-to-be independent South Sudan.
A pair of handcuffs dangle from a metal girder on the blacked ceiling: A grim reminder of the torture that once went on here.
For South Sudan, already struggling to contain violence, this place offers the starkest of warnings that the future must not be like the past.
“Is this nation going to be an inclusive nation?” asked Jok Madut Jok, a southern academic and history professor at Loyola Marymount University in California, speaking in a recent public lecture.
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