Civil War
June 1963 he defected from the Army and joined the South Sudan resistance movement against the Government of Sudan. September 1963 he founded Anya nya the military wing of the resistance movement, named after a deadly poison. Anya-nya reinvigorated the movement that erupted on 18 August 1955 and continued the fight against the Sudanese government in the first Sudanese civil war (1955–72) dubbed the 17 Years War. Among Joseph Lagu's junior officers in Anya-nya was John Garang who was recruited in October 1970 and was later to become the chief architect of the second civil war.
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