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If he is dead, and I have the gut feel he is, then Africa should ready
herself for another 20 years of wanton bloodletting.
How sad!!
PETER
----- Original Message -----
From: Devine Akabutu <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 1, 2005 0:16 am
Subject: John Garang Is Dead?
> Oh my God !
>
> I hope this will not lead to what happened in Rwanda.
>
>
> Devine
>
> PETER W VAKUNTA <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> This sounds like a replay of the Samora MACHEL infernal incident in
> Southern Africa many years back.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: f ossia
> Date: Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:33 pm
> Subject: Sudanese VP Missing Amid Crash Reports
>
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> >
> > MOHAMED OSMAN and TANALEE SMITH
> > Associated Press Writers
> >
> > July 31, 2005, 10:12 PM EDT
> >
> > KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Ugandan and Sudanese forces searched on Monday
> > for a
> > missing helicopter carrying Sudan's vice president, a former rebel
> > leaderwho is a key figure in a fledgling peace deal between the
> > predominantly Arab
> > Muslim government and the Christian south.
> >
> > John Garang's helicopter crashed in bad weather in Uganda near the
> > Sudanborder, Uganda's president said.
> >
> > Garang's absence would be a heavy blow to the January peace deal
> > that ended
> > a 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the
> > Christian and
> > animist south in which some 2 million people died.
> >
> > The 60-year-old former rebel, who was sworn in as vice president
> > just three
> > weeks ago, left on a flight from Uganda for southern Sudan at 5:30
> > p.m.Ugandan time Saturday afternoon, Sudanese and Ugandan
> > officials said. It was
> > not clear when the last contact with his craft took place.
> >
> > His helicopter had attempted to land in the New Kush region of
> > southernSudan but aborted the landing because of bad weather and
> > headed back south,
> > Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said early Monday. Weather
> > reports showed
> > rain in the area.
> >
> > The craft was heard near Pirre, a mountainous region near the
> > Kenyan and
> > Sudanese borders on the edge of a large national park, and was
> > believed to
> > have crash-landed, Museveni said. He added that the Kenyans had
> > been asked
> > to help in the search.
> >
> > From Sudan, there were wildly contradictory reports over the
> > disappearance,although there was no word of foul play.
> >
> > Sudanese state television reported Sunday night that Garang's
> > craft had
> > landed safely, but Communications Minister Abdel-Basit Sabdarat
> > went on TV
> > hours later to deny the report. "Up to now we do not have any
> > concrete new
> > information about the whereabouts" of Garang's flight, he said.
> >
> > Garang, who earned a doctorate from Iowa State University, is seen
> > as the
> > sole figure with the weight to give southern Sudanese a role in
> > the Khartoum
> > government, which they deeply mistrust. He also was a strong voice
> > againstoutright secession by the south, calling instead for
> > autonomy and
> > power-sharing.
> >
> > Sudanese have celebrated the power-sharing agreement -- and a new
> > constitution signed afterward -- as opening a new chapter of peace
> > and as a
> > chance to resolve other bloody conflicts in Sudan, including the
> > humanitarian crisis in the western region of Darfur.
> >
> > Garang was sworn in as vice president on July 9 -- second only
> to his
> > longtime enemy, President Omar el-Bashir. He and el-Bashir were to
> > work on
> > setting up a power-sharing government and on elevating Garang's
> > rebel troops
> > to an equal status with the Sudanese military.
> >
> > There is no other leader of Garang's stature in the former rebel
> > movement,the Sudan People's Libaration Army, which he founded and
> > dominated for 21
> > years. His arrival in Khartoum on July 8 to take the vice
> > president's post
> > brought millions of southerners and northerners to the streets in
> > celebration.
> >
> > His flight's disappearance brought up the shadows of the 1994
> > downing of the
> > airplane of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, who had been
> > trying to
> > implement a power-sharing deal between his fellow Hutus and the
> rival> Tutsis. His death opened the doors to the Rwandan genocide in
> > which more
> > than 500,000 people were killed.
> >
> > That genocide took place after months of preparation by Hutu
> > militants --
> > something that has not taken place in Sudan amid the good feelings
> > over the
> > peace deal.
> >
> > Garang was returning home from a private visit to Uganda, flying
> > from the
> > capital Kampala to southern Sudan -- a trip that normally takes
> > about two
> > hours -- said Ugandan army spokesman 2nd Capt. Dennis Musitwa.
> >
> > "We share the anxieties of the public since it is now 24 hours
> > since the
> > estimated time of arrival of the helicopter at its destination,"
> > Museveni,the Ugandan president, said in his statement.
> >
> > Ugandan troops and Sudanese military planes were searching for
> > Garang'scraft in the remote border region. A Ugandan rebel group,
> > the Lord's
> > Resistance Army, operates in the area and has shot down Ugandan
> > militaryhelicopters in the past.
> >
> > Initially, Sudanese television said he left Sunday evening,
> > heading to a
> > former SPLA base called "Newsite" in southern Sudan. Then it aired
> > a report
> > that he had landed safely at a SPLA base in southern Sudan. But
> > Sabdaratdenied that report and confirmed that it had left Uganda
> > on Saturday.
> >
> > El-Bashir clearly saw Garang as an important partner in sealing
> > the peace,
> > ensuring the south does not secede, and in repairing Sudan's
> > internationalreputation. With a speed stunning to many in Sudan,
> > the Sudanese state media
> > went from describing Garang in the darkest terms to respectively
> > calling him
> > "Dr. Garang" after the peace deal was struck.
> >
> > * __
> >
> > Mohamed Osman reported on this story from Khartoum, and Tanalee
> Smith> reported from Kassala, Sudan.
> > Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.
> >
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