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World Service,06 Jan 2011,10 mins

Sudan's civil war

Witness History

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This weekend the people of Southern Sudan will vote in a referendum on independence. We take you back to the last time the South tried to break free of the rest of Sudan. We hear from two Sudanese women about the war which began in 1983 following the push for autonomy.

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