Anyanya
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Anyanya were a southern Sudanese separatist rebel army formed during the First Sudanese Civil War (sometimes referred to as Anyanya I) which started in 1955. From about 1969 to 1972, the Lotuko, Madi, Bari, Acholi, Zande, and other peoples from the mountainous southern border region of Sudan waged a war against the Sudanese government. This mobilization came to be known as Anyanya rebellion. Anyanya means "snake venom" in the Madi language. [1]
When the peace deal fell apart in 1983, the peoples of the South (this time, largely the Dinka, Nuer and Nuba peoples) organized the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) under the leadership of John Garang. This mobilization came to be known as Anyanya II or the Second Sudanese Civil War.[1]
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- ^ a b Wells, Victor C. and Samuel P. Dilla, December 1993, "Colonization, Arabization, Slavery, and War, and War Against Indigenous Peoples of Southern Sudan" Fourth World Bulletin, Vol.3, No.1
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