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EGYPT
LIBYA
lion against the administration in
Khartoum.
As can be imagined, Israel
SUDAN
heads the list of those backing the CHAD
ERITREA
Anya-Nya uprising. In his book
The Israeli Connection, Benjamin
Beit-Hallahmi reveals that Israel
has supported the southern
rebels since the 1960s. Ever since ETHIOPIA
that time, Israel has given the
CENTRAL
Anya-Nya movement arms and AFRICAN REP.
military training. Israeli intelli-
KENYA
gence organization the Mossad es- UGANDA
tablished links with the southern
rebels via its stations in Uganda,
Chad, Ethiopia and the Congo,
and some 30 Anya-Nya guerrillas
were given special training at Mossad headquarters in the city of Torit.
In 1970 Israel reached an agreement with Uganda, to the south of
Sudan, thus expanding its ability to use the Uganda-Sudan border and
to support Anya-Nya. According to the mercenary Rolf Steiner, who
fought with the Anya-Nya, Israel was the southern rebels' most impor-
tant backer. 45
Sudan went through a period of political upheaval until 1989,
when the Muslim Brotherhood organization led by Hasan al-Turabi
took over the administration. Since then, there has been an Islamic state
in the country, led by al-Turabi. Following the introduction of Islamic
laws by the Sudanese Parliament, the Anya-Nya began a new uprising,
under the name of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Before
sitting down to negotiate with the administration, SPLA leader John
Garang laid down as a precondition the revocation of Islamic laws.
When the parliament refused to accept this, the violence increased. This
uprising against the Islamic regime was supported by a number of
countries.