Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

They've helped the NIF to recruit defectors from the SPLA: Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon Lam Akol Ajawin and sometimes the late William Nyuon Bany...

The NIF's divide-to-rule successes include 'peace agreements' in 1997 and 1998 when it co-opted dissident Sudan People's Liberation Army dissident leaders Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin plus some people dubbed faction leaders for the purpose...

Garang ran through the NIF's tactics for holding onto power stressing 'divide-to-rule' and noting that the 'peace from within' policy had brought no peace and isolated its signatories Riek Machar and Lam Akol...

* Southern Sudan Independence Army: formally allied with government since 1996; ostensibly leads Southern Sudan Defence Force; defends oil areas; Riek Machar: ‘southern President'; he broke with Garang 1991 demanding independent south; now reportedly seeks pact with Garang after government and former ally Paulino Matip' s forces sacked Ler last week...

Little by little it drew in notably Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon William Nyuon Bany (who later defected then was killed by Riek's men) Kerubino Kwanyin Bol (whose ravages were a main cause of the Bahr el Ghazal famine and who is now back in theory with the SPLA) the late Arok Thuon Arok (AC Vol 39 No 4) and Lam Akol Ajawin...

Interestingly Riek Machar prominent at Nairobi repeatedly spoke of the oil reserves as in the ‘centre' of the country...

In mid-1997 it retook Maban Blue Nile with the help of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's ex-Southern Sudan Independence Army...

The old Antonov-32 crashed apparently accidentally in Riek Machar's Upper Nile stronghold Nasir and also killed one of Khartoum's key southern allies Arok Thuon Arok and perhaps 26 others...

The first Nuba Advisory Council was convened by Sudan People's Liberation Army Commander Yousif Kuwa in 1992 after 400 of his troops died trying to bring ammunition into the Nuba Mountains through the battles raging to the south between the forces of John Garang and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Oppositionists note that if Khartoum wanted peace it wouldn't have based April's 'Khartoum Peace Agreement' on Garang's arch-enemy Riek Machar...

After the assassination in 1996 of William Nyuon Bany (a chameleon figure sometimes seen as commander of the pro-SPLA wing of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's Southern Sudan Independence Movement) his replacement John Luk Jok precipitously declared unity with the SPLA...

This triggered defections to Riek Machar by fellow-Nuer commanders; Luk came under pressure from Nuer leaders to distance himself from Garang but the damage was done...

It doesn't mention fighting between Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and rival Nuer forces in Upper Nile or its regular and indiscriminate bombardments of SPLA areas or the formation of the New Sudan Brigade...

It signed a Political Charter in April with Riek Machar Teny (Southern Sudan Independence Movement) Karabino Kuanyin Bol (a Dinka former deputy of John Garang long gaoled by him) and Arok Thon Arok (ditto)...

Riek Machar and Karabino Kuanyin are supposed to help build this ring-fence; though once an army major (intelligence) and successively John Garang' s and Riek' s security chief Arok Thon has no troops: he competes with his clansman Garang for Bor loyalty...