South Sudan Officials Rebuff the White Army Comeback
BOR, South Sudan – The recent spate of violence in Jonglei state has drawn the world’s attention to the cyclical problem of inter-communal violence in South Sudan. When another round of violence between the Lou-Nuer and Murle people reignited in late December 2011, it was accompanied by disturbing press releases from the so-called Lou-Nuer White Army calling for the extermination of the Murle people, which appalled the public in South Sudan and beyond.
The original White Army came into being during the later years of the Second Sudanese Civil War as an irregular force of Nuer youths aligned with a breakaway faction of the SPLA. (...)
