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There are even stranger sightings of the CSA battle flag. A decade and a half ago when the Sudan Civil War was at its height a high ranking state department emissary visiting the South Sudan secession forces as part of an ongoing attempt to work out some modus vivendi between the two halves was jolted to find the heavily armed guard of honor drawn up on the tarmac at the airport to be carrying Confederate battle flags. Before he had digested this interesting item the band assembled near the plane struck up the fast beat version of ‘Dixie’ which was played as he reviewed the honor party. Subsequent questioning led to being told that some of the south Sudan rebels had gone to some black evangelical colleges in the deep south and had some knowledge of the CW/WBTS. Further they had witnessed SCV members in Confederate uniforms parading to the strains of Dixie and the Bonny Blue Flag of Confederate Memorial Day. Since these fellows were southern Sudanese and were in rebellion against the central government and wanted their own nation it seemed appropriate to incorporate the regalia of another earlier group of southern rebels. Slavery wasn't a big issue to these folks either as it was practiced throughout the Sudan. The South Sudan rebels thought that slavery in their area was much more humane and civilized as they were virtually all Bible reading Christians , than in the North, the land Islamic Fundamentalism.