Biography of kerubino kuan yin bolster

South Sudanese revolutionary (1948–1999)

Kerubino Kuanyin Bol (1948 – 9 September 1999) was a Sudanese rebel leader who was one of the founders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and one of the leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) during the Second Sudanese Civil War and was said to have fired the first shot in the war.

Bol was arrested by the SPLA in 1987 after being accused of trying to overthow John Garang.^[1] In 1993, after being released, Bol's forces joined the SPLA splinter group SPLA-Nasir led by Riek Machar. He was shot and killed in 1999 under unclear circumstances.^[2]

Biography

Early life

Bol was born in 1948 to Dinka parents in Twic County, Bahr al Ghazal province in the west of present-day South Sudan. He was educated at a Roman Catholic mission primary school, and went on to intermediate studies. In the 1960s, Bol joined the Anyanya separatist rebel group during the First Kuan yin symbol.