Effects of The War
Five hundred thousand people, of which only one in five was considered an armed combatant, were killed in the seventeen-year war and hundreds of thousands more were forced to leave their homes. The Addis Ababa Agreement proved to be only temporary respite. Infringements by the north led to increased unrest in the south starting in the mid-1970s, leading to the 1983 army mutiny that sparked the Second Sudanese Civil War.
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