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Massacre at Juba. In 1965, Khartoum's leaders began talks with black leaders, but no agreement was reached...
...Anya Nya guerrillas showed up in force a fortnight ago at the provincial capital of Wau (see map), tried to storm the army garrison. According to the government, the attack was beaten back and 72 terrorists were killed. Lesser battles were reported in several villages, but it was at Juba, the south's largest city (pop. 40,000), that the war's real fury was felt...
Instead of hurling themselves at the army, the Juba rebels ambushed a lone sergeant out for an evening stroll, sawed off the top of his head, emasculated him, and stuck the amputated part in his mouth. The Arab garrison went berserk. Its troops exploded into the street, firing wildly at everything that moved. They cordoned off the black districts along the Nile, sent four-man assassination parties down every street, setting fire to the thatched native huts and shooting down their occupants as they emerged. Many residents, caught between the advancing vengeance squads and the army cordon, threw themselves...
Ultimatum. In the wake of the Juba massacre came a new hard line from Khartoum. Abandoning all hopes of reconciliation, Mahdi-backed Prime Minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub rushed heavy reinforcements to the three rebellious provinces and issued an ultimatum to the guerrillas to surrender their arms-or face "severe measures...
...after sleeping it off in a tin-roofed "refugee center," truck contentedly back. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who drove to Arua last week, found several bearded Simbas in monkeyskin caps gulping palm wine in the town marketplace. Local merchants reported that the rebels have been forced to route several Juba arms shipments through Arua instead of straight across the Congo-Sudan border to Aba. Reason: stepped-up activity by the Sudan's own rebels-who are anti-Arab, pro-Tshombe-has made the Juba-Aba road too dangerous for the Simba convoys...