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When General Abboud came to power, his foremost goal was to end the rebellion and resolve the problem of Southern Sudan. Since a state of emergency had already been in full force between 1955 and 1958, Abboud was simply tightening the military’s grip on the South. Northern Sudanese troops were deployed throughout Southern Sudan, and military garrisons and posts were established along the borders of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the Congo, and the Central African Republic.1 Indeed, between 1960 and 1962, the number of Northern Sudanese in the South surpassed that of any other time since Southern Sudan was opened to outsiders in the mid-nineteenth century. According to Bona Ring, sending large numbers of Northern troops to the South was a policy traceable to the 1955 disturbances at Torit. Since then the army, the police, and the guards had been more an army of occupation than a national security force.2 |
