Yohannes Yual Both (or Johannes Yoal Bath etc.) was a leader of the

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whose mobile forces gave the

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considerable difficulty during the

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(1983–2005). In August 1991

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and

Gordon Kong Gordon Kong Chuol is a former militia commander in South Sudan, who fought for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and later for the forces led by Riek Machar during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Independence fighter Gordon Kong Chuol bel ...

announced that John Garang had been ejected from the SPLM. The breakaway faction, based in

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until 1995 and then in Waat and Ayod, was called the SPLM/A-Nasir faction from 1991 to 1993. The Bul Nuer

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militia at Mayom under Paulino Matip and the Lou Nuer Anyanya 2 militia at

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under Yohannes Yual declared for Riek. Later these forces become part of the government-sponsored SSDF militia. The civil war ended in January 2005. Yohannes Yual accepted the

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, joining the army along with other soldiers under the command of

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. His men are primarily

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, now in the 8th Division's command in

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state. He is a Major General and has been deputy commander of the 4th Division in Duar, Upper Nile State. A group called the South Sudan United Democratic Alliance alleged that on 12 April 2006, Lou Nuer (Janai/Gatliek section) SPLA forces under Johannes Yoal Bath launched a revenge attack on Ulang and killed more than 30 people, including both civilians and soldiers. The attack was said to be in retaliation for cattle raids in Nyayin, on the East Bank of the

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, made by combined forces of the SPLA and Jikany Nuer under Commander George Athor Deng. Johannes Yoal Bath had been involved in an attack on

in May 1994.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yual, Yohannes Living people Sudanese military personnel Year of birth missing (living people)