(The Ways Daily)-Today, lawyers acting for the family of journalist Christopher (Chris) Allen have made a formal request to the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to open a criminal investigation into suspected war crimes committed against him. They have asked the FBI’s International Human Rights Unit to investigate two alleged breaches of the USA’s own War Crimes Act: one concerning the way in which Christopher was killed, and one concerning the degrading treatment of his body after his death. Christopher Allen was the first foreign journalist to be killed in the South Sudan conflict. He was a dual US/ UK national. At the time of his death Christopher was documenting armed clashes between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition and South Sudanese armed forces in the town of Kaya, close to the border with Uganda. He was shot dead on 27 August 2017 by South Sudanese armed forces. In the two years since Christopher Allen’s death, there has been no official investi