John Garang: New Sudan Vision 02 جون قرنق: السودان الجديد ج

Sudan Documentary
John Garang
Dr John Garang de Mabior (June 23, 1945 -- July 30, 2005) was the vice president of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army

Early years
A member of the Dinka ethnic group, Garang was born into a poor family in Wanglei village in Bor, Sudan, in the upper Nile region of Sudan (currently Jonglei State). An orphan by the age of ten, he had his fees for school paid by a relative, going to schools in Wau and then Rumbek. In 1962 he joined the first Sudanese civil war, but because he was so young, the leaders encouraged him and others his age to seek an education. Because of the ongoing fighting, Garang was forced to attend his secondary education in Tanzania. After winning a scholarship, he went on to earn a B.A. in economics in 1969 from Grinnell College in Iowa, USA. He was known there for his bookishness. He return to Tanzania and study East African agricultural economics as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow at the University of Dar es Salaam. As a member of the University Students' African Revolutionary Front, a student group at the university, he made the acquaintance of Yoweri Museveni, who would go on to become president of Uganda and a close ally. However, Garang soon decided to return to Sudan and join the rebels.
The civil war ended with the Addis Ababa agreement of 1972 and Garang, like many rebels, was absorbed into the Sudanese military. For eleven years, he was a career soldier and rose from the rank of captain to colonel after taking the Infantry Officers Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. During this period he took four years academic leave and received a master's degree in agricultural economics and a Ph.D. in economics at Iowa State University, after writing a thesis on the agricultural development of Southern Sudan. By 1983, Col. Garang was the head of the Staff College in Omdurman.
The rebel leader
In 1983, Garang went to Bor, obstensibly to mediate with about 500 southern government soldiers in battalion 105 who were resisting being rotated to posts in the north. However, Garang was already part of a conspiracy among some officers in the Southern Command arranging for the defection of battalion 105 to the anti-government rebels. When the government attacked Bor in May and the battalion pulled out, Garang went by an alternate route to join them in the rebel stronghold in Ethiopia. By the end of July, Garang had brought over 3000 rebel soldiers under his control through the newly-created Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M), which was opposed to military rule and Islamic dominance of the country, and encouraged other army garrisons to mutiny against the Islamic law imposed on the country by the government. This action marked the commonly agreed upon beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War, which resulted in one and half million deaths over twenty years of conflict. Although Garang was Christian and most of southern Sudan is non-Muslim (mostly animist), he did not initially focus on the religious aspects of the war.
The SPLA gained the backing of Libya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Garang and his army controlled a large part of the southern regions of the country, named New Sudan. He claimed his troops' courage comes from "the conviction that we are fighting a just cause. That is something North Sudan and its people don't have." Critics suggested financial motivations to his rebellion, noting that much of Sudan's oil wealth lies in the south of the country.
Garang in a crowd of supporters
Garang refused to participate in the 1985 interim government or 1986 elections, remaining a rebel leader. However, the SPLA and government signed a peace agreement on 9th January 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya. On July 9, 2005, he was sworn in as vice-president, the second most powerful person in the country, following a ceremony in which he and President Omar al-Bashir signed a power-sharing constitution. He also became the administrative head of a southern Sudan with limited autonomy for the six years before a scheduled referendum of possible secession. No Christian or southerner had ever held such a high government post. Commenting after the ceremony, Garang stated, "I congratulate the Sudanese people, this is not my peace or the peace of al-Bashir, it is the peace of the Sudanese people."
Death
In late July 2005, Garang died after the Ugandan presidential Mi-172 helicopter he was flying in crashed. He had been returning from a meeting in Rwakitura with long-time ally President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda?.

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[soshaba]

Sudan is an unlucky country.

[KinzVideo]

Really Sudan unlucky country, really

[cholhok1]

@KinzVideo

how is it?

[abuzefit]

we are not lucky enough to loose one like Dr. Garang who had a clrer visions about sudan and social justice.

[muzyalneel]

a great man with a great vision !

[hasab90001]

اللهم ارحم الفقيد واسكنة جنات تجري من تحت الانهار

[2009bigdog]

@soshaba luck is not a good word to discribe Sudan the people are not protected by a government they are controlled but not protected any one who tortures and kills children and commits kidnapings need to be captured and put to death to make an example of how these actions are no more tolerated.

[masterpaingatluak12]

@Alithdit damn ass Arab evil, Garang is the best resfecttfull man in sudan, Gangang love sudaness to stay as a sudan but the evil north mad a bad idea

fuck you arab

[cataloni10]

أنا مسلم عربي ومن السعوديه

الدكتور جون قرنق من أحد الشخصيات التي يجب الأحتذاء بها

بغض النظر عن ديانته

هذا الأنسان كان صريح ورسالته كانت واضحه

أنسان يدعو الى حرية الأنسان والتي الله سبحانه وتعالى وهبها لكل أنسان

دكتور جون قرنق قدوه للجميع

[coup8585]

@soshaba

Pls tell me how sudan is an unlucky country