John Garang

John Garang (of Mabior) was a politician and military Sudan board, born the June 23rd 1945 with Bor with the Sudan and deceased the July 31st 2005 close to New Cush (southern of Sudan).

Biography

After having attended an elementary school under the British administration, John Garang makes his secondary studies in Tanzania before studying the economic scenes in Grinnell College (Iowa, the United States). In 1970, it joined the Anyanya rebel movement against the mode of Khartoum. After the signature of an peace agreement with Addis-Abeba in 1972, it is integrated in the Sudanese army. In September 1983, the general Gaafar Mohammed Nimeiri imposes the Islamic law on the whole of the Sudan. John Garang founds then the popular Armée with release of Sudan (SPLA) which starts a war against the central capacity. In spite of the scission of its movement in 1991, John Garang will maintain the rebellion against the islamist mode of the general Omar to el-Béchir, installed in Khartoum in 1989. Its movement profits from the pressures of the American administration on the Sudanese government after the election of George W. Bush.

After a cease-fire in October 2002, peace agreements between the Arab government and islamist of Khartoum and the rebels Christian animists and of the SPLA is signed the January 9th 2005. The government is represented by the vice-president Ali Osmane Taha and the SPLA by John Garang, his historical leader. In 2010, the Christian inhabitants and animists of the areas of South-Sudan will have to vote for or against independence.

John Garang is invested vice-president the July 9th but dies the July 31st 2005, with 13 other people, in an accident of helicopter while returning from a meeting with Kampala with the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni. This one does not exclude the possibility of an assassination. Garang travelled in an Ugandan presidential helicopter. Its death delayed the formation of a government of national unit, crucial within the framework of the application of the peace agreement signed on January 9th, 2005, and initially planned for on August 9th, 2005.

Its funeral with Juba was preceded by violent riots, in particular in Khartoum, causing the death of 110 people and more than 1600 arrests.

External bond

  • Official site of the SPLM (political branches of the SPLA)

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