John Garang de Mabior

Aleu publicly accuses Museveni of killing John Garang de Mabior in 2005 and was State (Junior) Interior Minister in Khartoum in the 2005 National Unity Government at a time when Pa'gan and Yasir Saeed Arman now SG of the Sudan Revolutionary Front were arrested and beaten up...

Prominent at the press conference are Pa'gan Amum Okiech (whom Salva had dismissed as SPLM Secretary General) Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon Deng Alor Kuol Alfred Ladu Gore (an Equatorian SPLM founder) and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior widow of the SPLM founding Chairman Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

Rebecca Garang widow of the late SPLM leader John Garang de Mabior has also been detained showing the depth of the schism...

Salva led the party's u-turn away from the late John Garang's policy of a united secular Sudan in favour of an independent South Sudan...

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...