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Sudan
Index
In August 1955, five months before independence, southern
troops of the Equatoria Corps, together with police, mutinied in
Torit and other towns. The mutinies were suppressed although some
of the rebels were able to escape to rural areas. There they
formed guerrilla bands but, being poorly armed and organized,
presented no extensive threat to security. The later emergence of
a secessionist movement in the south led to the formation of the
Anya Nya guerrilla army, composed of remnants of the 1955
mutineers and recruits among southern students. Active at first
only in Al Istiwai, Anya Nya carried its rebellion to all three
southern provinces between 1963 and 1969. In 1971 a former army
lieutenant, Joseph Lagu, united the ethnically fragmented
guerrilla bands in support of a new political movement, the
Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM). The war ended in March
1972 with an agreement between Nimeiri and Lagu that conceded to
the south a single regional government with defined powers.
Data as of June 1991
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