15/07/2026
Colonel Samuel G*i Tut (1940s – March 1984)
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Colonel Samuel G*i Tut was a prominent South Sudanese military and political leader and a founding commander of the Anyanya II movement. Born in the 1940s in Nyirol County, in present-day Jonglei State, he joined the Anyanya I liberation movement during the First Sudanese Civil War (1955–1972), where he received military training under Israeli advisors and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Following the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, Tut transitioned to public service. He served as a Member of the Southern Regional People's Assembly and later as Regional Minister of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism in the High Executive Council (HEC) of the Southern Regional Government.
In 1983, after the abrogation of the Addis Ababa Agreement and the outbreak of the Second Sudanese Civil War, he defected from the central government and emerged as a leading figure in the Anyanya II movement alongside Akuot Atem de Mayen. Anyanya II, formed by former Anyanya I veterans who had re-integrated into the Sudanese Armed Forces, preceded the formation of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) and initially constituted its principal rival for leadership of the southern resistance.
Colonel Samuel G*i Tut was killed in March 1984 during an armed confrontation with SPLA forces at Adura, near the Ethiopia–Sudan border. His life and death remain significant in South Sudan's political history, reflecting the complex ideological and ethno-political divisions that shaped the protracted struggle for liberation. He is remembered as a pivotal military commander and political figure whose legacy continues to be debated by historians and within South Sudanese communities.
