Speaking of his childhood, he said: "The effendi who came around our village to kill elephants were Muslims.
When I was a kid, if I was woken late in the morning by my father, he would say 'if it had been in the days of the Ansars you would have been taken'.
[5] Sule, Stanislaus Paysama and Buth Diu founded the Southern Sudanese Political Movement in 1951, with the goals of achieving full independence for Sudan, with special treatment for southern Sudan.
[6] The new party was led by Benjamin Lwoki and funded by Abdel Rahman Sule and Fahal Ukanda, both Muslims.
[2] After the military crack-down in 1960, Sule went into exile and helped lead the south Sudan resistance movement from abroad.