John Garang de Mabior

He first blotted his copybook by joining Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon when he and Lam Akol Ajawin split from John Garang de Mabior's SPLM in 1991 though he later returned to the fold...

Some recalled a saying by the late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior which in one version ran: ‘There'll never be a shortage of people to take up arms and defend the South but who is ready to share power and look after the people...

They include National Legislative Assembly Speaker James Wani Igga a Bari from Equatoria with a sound wartime military reputation; Lieutenant General James Hoth Mai the popular Nuer Chief of General Staff; and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (aka Rebecca Garang) former Presidential Advisor on Gender and widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

The choice of Riek a leading Nuer politician from Unity State and former rebel against the late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior as Vice-President symbolises that balance...

Early this month Yau Yau captured John Garang’s former headquarters town Boma and SPLA troops fled...

That’s why he could sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with John Garang...

Injustice and liberation The eldest son of the late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior is one such...

Although Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon would make a very willing and potentially able successor his history of accommodation with Khartoum and the legacy of inter-ethnic conflict triggered by his 1991 revolt against John Garang means his appointment to the top job would likely split the SPLM...

During the war as the late General John Garang de Mabior’s deputy Lieutenant General Salva had challenged his Chairman and Commander-in-Chief over corruption in the SPLA...

Thus for most of the Interim little thought was given to the modalities of separation although it should have been obvious that any chance of Southerners voting to live in a ‘united secular Sudan’ had died along with the founder of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) John Garang de Mabior in a mysterious air crash in July 2005 days after he had formed the South’s first interim government...

Anya Nya II later merged into the SPLM/A led by Colonel John Garang de Mabior and Pa’gan was one of its early leaders...

The late SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior’s ‘New Sudan’ doctrine called for a united Sudan based on ethnic linguistic religious and economic equality...