The First Sudanese Civil War: Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the Southern Sudan, 1955-1972

281 Pages·2008·1.19 MB·English

by  Scopas S. Poggo

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The First Sudanese Civil War
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The First Sudanese Civil War
Africans, Arabs, and Israelis in the
Southern Sudan, 1955–1972
Scopas S. Poggo
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the first sudanese civil war
Copyright © Scopas S. Poggo, 2009.
All rights reserved.
First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the Unites States—a
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ISBN-13: 978-0-230-60796-5
ISBN-10: 0-230-60796-9
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Chapter 5 is a revision of “General Ibrahim Abboud’s Military Administration in
the Sudan, 1958–1964: Implementation of the Programs of Islamization and
Arabization in the Southern Sudan,” Northeast African Studies Journal, 9, no. 1
(April 2007): 67–101, reprinted with permission of the editor of the journal.
Chapter 8 contains revised material from “The Politics of Liberation in the
Southern Sudan 1967–1972: The Role of Israel, African Heads of State and
Foreign Mercenaries,” The Uganda Journal47 (November 2001): 34–48, reprinted
with permission of the editor of the journal.
Map credit: Sudan as of 2006: Permission of the UN Cartographic Section.
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In Memory of My Beloved Father
Daniel Poggo Waran-Wunyang
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C
ONTENTS
List of Maps ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1 Ethnicity and Race in Modern Sudan 9
2 The Torit Mutiny of 1955: Its Causes and Failure 21
3 Legacy of the Failed Mutiny: Government Repression and
Rise of the Resistance Movement 49
4 Government Counterinsurgency Methods, 1955–72 73
5 General Abboud’s Response: Repression, Islamization, and
Arabization, 1958–64 91
6 Emergence of Southern Sudanese Political Movements,
1960–72 113
7 Reorganization and Consolidation of the Guerrilla
Movement, 1963–71 131
8 External Political and Military Involvement in Sudan’s
Civil War, 1960–72 145
9 The Road to Peace, 1969–72 169
Conclusion 193
Notes 197
Bibliography 229
Index 241
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M
APS
Egypt under British Protection and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan xviii
The Provinces of Sudan from 1948 to 1973 xix
The States of Sudan as of 2006 xx