Word: anyanya
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...reason Steiner was treated with leniency was that, in a 50,000-word confession, he freely admitted his role as the Anyanya rebels' commander in chief. The borderline area that separates the black Christian south from the brown Muslim north has become the scene of international intrigue on a grand scale, he said. He implicated, in varying degrees, CIA operatives, Peace Corps people, British intelligence, relief organizations, the Roman Catholic Church, Israel, Ethiopia and Uganda. Through his German-speaking Sudanese lawyer, Steiner pleaded that he was not a cold hired killer but a kind of khaki-clad White Knight...
...ground operations in all three southern provinces. Last month they accompanied Sudanese army units in a raid on the main guerrilla camp, Owing-ki-bul (an Acholi war cry that means "Hear the drums sounding"), attacking the southerners by surprise while many were bathing in a river. The rebel Anyanya (who took their name from the poison of a cobra or scorpion) lost a dozen men and considerable equipment. A bombing raid against a rebel base at Morta near the Uganda border caused nearly 1,000 civilian casualties...