PRIMAL Vengeance

PRIMAL Vengeance - By Jack Silkstone




Prologue



Extract from 'In 2 Sudans, Familiarity with Path to War'

By JOSH KRON

Published: May 10, 2012, New York Times

South Sudan's years of conflict were meant to be over when it won its independence from Sudan last July after generations of fighting with the people of the north. But the jubilation quickly faded, and now, not even a year later, after weeks of pointed barbs and border skirmishes, this vast and vastly underdeveloped country is once again mobilizing for war — and asking some of the poorest people on earth to pay for it, with whatever they have at hand.

Sudan and South Sudan have yet to resolve a number of prickly and vital issues, not least of which is how to demarcate a border of more than 1,000 miles and share billions of dollars of oil revenue. Border clashes escalated in late March, killing hundreds, and strategic oil fields have switched hands...



..."When we took arms against Khartoum, there was no salary, there was no food, there was no water," said Gabriel Bol Duth..."We fought them because we wanted freedom."