Word: anyanya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily guarded federal military headquarters, an Arab, Major General Fatlalla Hamid, and Anyanya Leader Lagu pored over a sprawling map of Sudan's three southern provinces, discussing how to restore normality to the area for the first time since Sudan gained independence from Britian in 1956. Hamid and Lagu now live in the same house, work in the same office and tour the countryside together talking to Anyanya commanders...
...Africans of the southern Sudan have been pitted against the 11 million mostly Arab northerners. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese, most of them southerners, have been killed; hundreds of grass-hut villages have been bombed, sacked and burned by the northern army and sometimes by the southern guerrillas, the Anyanya (named for the poison extracted from scorpions or cobras...
...next week, if all goes well, a peace treaty will be signed at Addis Ababa, the capital of neighboring Ethiopia, by the leaders of the two sides: Major General Jaafar Numeiry, President of the Sudan, and Major General Joseph Lagu, commander of the Anyanya...
Under a new constitution, the south will have its own Regional President, parliament and police; only foreign affairs, currency and defense will be controlled by Khartoum. The army in the south will be evenly split between southern and northern commanders and men. A majority of the approximately 12,000 Anyanya will be amnestied into the Sudanese army...
...settlement must now be accepted by the fighting men on both sides. That will be made easier for the southerners because Lagu-a diminutive career soldier who in recent years built the Anyanya into a unified military and political force-will likely become their first Regional President. He shares credit for the settlement with Numeiry, who has worked for reconciliation with the south against strong opposition within his own hierarchy. On the eve of last month's peace talks, Numeiry dismissed his army commander and defense minister, Major General Khalid Abbas, who opposed the negotiations...