Tito Biel
Tito Biel Chuor (or Chol, Chor) was a high-ranking commander in the South Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005).
Tito Biel, of the Dok section of the
Major General Tito Biel led SSDF forces in 1998/1999 in clashes with
In November 1999 Biel, Gadet and other Nuer commanders formed the Upper Nile Provisional United Military Command Council (UMCC) to coordinate anti-government forces in the state. They were not satisfied with Riek Machar for cooperating with the government despite the fact that the government had not honored the Khartoum peace agreement and had not handed over control of the oil fields to the Nuer militias.[5] Riek Machar resigned from the government at the end of the year and in February 2000 formed the Sudan People's Defense Forces/Democratic Front (SPDF). For a while the UMCC and SPDF cooperated, but the arrangement broke down as the government supplied Machar with arms and ammunition to settle grievances with the SPLA/Gadet troop.[6]
Later in 2000 Tito Biel joined Riek Machar's SPDF.[1] He spent several months after March 2000 in Nairobi with Riek Machar and other leaders.[7] In early 2001 Tito Biel returned to Eastern Upper Nile with Riek Machar where they tried to drum up support for the SPDF militia.[8] In early February 2002, resentful that he had not been consulted on Riek Machar's deal with John Garang to rejoin the SPLA, Tito Biel rejoined the Sudan government. Later he was joined by Peter Gadet.[9]
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- "Five Years of Sudan Focal Point Briefings" (PDF). Sudan Focal Point - Africa. November 2004. Retrieved 2011-08-12.[permanent dead link]
- "Peace from within". Sudan Update. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- Rone, Jemera (2003). Sudan, oil, and human rights. Human Rights Watch. p. 12. ISBN 1-56432-291-2.