Ethnic Violence in South SudanSouth Sudan · 2011–ongoing“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”Beneath the big war of presidents and vice-presidents, South Sudan bleeds from a thousand small ones — nowhere more than Jonglei. Over Christmas 2011, some eight thousand fighters of the Lou Nuer "White Army" marched on the Murle of Pibor; the United Nations counted around nine hundred dead by February and some fifty thousand driven from their homes, and between 2009 and 2012 such raids took more than three thousand lives.