Militant ethnic nationalist organization in South Sudan
Nuer White Army
Leaders
Bordoang Leah
Dates of operation
1991–present
Headquarters
Yuai, Uror County, South Sudan
Active regions
South Sudan
Ideology
Ethnic nationalism Environmentalism Indigenism
Size
25,000[1][2]
Allies
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Opponents
Government of South Sudan
The Nuer White Army, sometimes decapitalised as the "white army", is a semi-official name for a militant organisation formed by the Nuer people of central and eastern Greater Upper Nile in modern-day South Sudan as early as 1991.[1] According to the Small Arms Survey, it arose from the 1991 schism within the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) for the dual purpose of defending Nuer cattle herds from neighbouring groups and fighting in the Second Sudanese Civil War between the SPLM/A and the Sudanese government.[3]
While sometimes reported that the White Army was so named due to the Nuer practice of smearing one's skin with a light-coloured ash as a protection against biting insects, other sources contend the name was merely intended to draw a distinction between the Nuer militia and the Sudan Armed Forces,[3] with the irregular "white" forces opposing the regular "black" forces, so called because white has a positive connotation and black a negative one.[4]
^ ab"South Sudan: 'White Army' militia marches to fight". USA Today. 28 December 2013.
^"South Sudan forces battle White Army". The Daily Star. LB. 29 December 2013.
^ abYoung, John (June 2007). "The White Army: An Introduction and Overview" (PDF). Small Arms Survey. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
^Young, John (July 2016). "Popular Struggles and Elite Co-optation: The Nuer White Army in South Sudan's Civil War" (PDF). p. 13.
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