Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Nuer White Army

This fighter has a lot of Western clothing like jeans, shoes, and glasses. This hints that the Nuer tribe has strong Western influences in their current culture.

This individual's weapon, the spear reflects the tribal nature of the Nuer White Army. However, this individual is wearing western clothing.

Again this guy is wearing a combination of western clothing with traditional influences.
Like all the other fighters in this post, he is wearing western clothing with a tribalized manner. His weapon appears to be a Kalashnikov with its magazine tapped "jungle style"

This particular individual might me a commander. His officer gear might have been stolen from the SPLA.

Again, red headbands, western clothing with traditional influences, and some military fatigues.

One of the more well equipped fighters in the militia. Notice the prevalence of red headbands among this fighters. Must be some tribal indication or something.

Again, this individual might be wearing uniforms captured from the SPLA. However, the Sudanese government might be supplying these fighters with uniforms to a small extent. But evidence to the contrary is that if that were the case, uniformity most likely be more prevalent in this fighters and such uniformity doesn't exist.

Red headbands on this fighters hat. It is very interesting about the prevalence of red headbands on several of these fighters in these depictions of White Neur Army fighters. This individual is wearing a bandolier.

This guy might have captured military fatigues from the corpses of SPLA government troops. The red headband on his head. Interesting. One must wonder on the significance of the prevalence of red headbands on Nuer White Army fighters.

These depictions are interesting because they show the contradictory influences of traditional and western cultures on these fighters.

2 comments:

  1. Josh, what war are they fighting?

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  2. They are fighting the South Sudan Civil War of 2014.

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