"A true Revolutionary Dies"

Whenever you meet difficult situations dash forward bravely and joyfully.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure



Given the lefts sick obsession with revolutionary's,
one would have hoped to hear more from them
on the death of the late "John Garang"!

His years of fighting against Muslim Shaiah law, and disrimination and democray
is one to be lauded! With t he help from Colin Powell and Bush, he was able to
broker a deal of land sharing with the Sudanese Goverment!
He was killed the other day, I belive he was killed by the Sudanse goverment!

They may have done something to the plane!
He had just been appointed last week as Vice President!
They had the man killed, I will die beliveing this!

This is a brief history I put together for my faithful blog readers about the crisis,
in Sudan! And who this humble and noble men was was!

This is a revolutionary shirt that any Republican can put on his shirt!!!

John Garang was born June 23, 1945 in Wagkulei Village, Upper Nile, Sudan. After high school in Tanzania, went to Grinnel College in Iowa, and later received a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. Garang participated in military training at Fort Benning, GA, between college and graduate school. He founded the SPLA in 1983 and has led it ever since.



During the 1970s, Garang joined the Sudanese military, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Sudan People's Armed Forces (SPAF). In 1983, he was sent to crush a mutiny in Bor by 500 southern government soldiers who were resisting being rotated to posts in the north. Instead, he started a rebel movement, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), 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 mutiny marked the beginning of the Second Sudanese Civil War, which resulted in one and half million deaths over twenty years of conflict. Alhough Garang was Christian and most of southern Sudan is non-Muslim (mostly animist), he did not 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 refused to participate in the 1985 interim government or 1986 elections, remaining a rebel leader. However, the SPLA and government signed a peace agreement in January 2005. 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."

The United States State Department argued that Garang's presence in the government would have helped solve the Darfur conflict in western Sudan, but others consider these claims " excessively optimistic".


In late July 2005, Garang died after the Ugandan presidential MI-72 helicopter he was riding crashed. He had been returning from a meeting in Rwakitura with long-time ally President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Sudanese state television initially reported that Garang's craft had landed safely, but Abdel Basset Sabdarat, the country's Information Minister, went on TV hours later to deny the report.


Soon afterwards, a statement released by the office of Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir confirmed that a Ugandan presidential helicopter, crashed into "a mountain range in southern Sudan because of poor visibility and this resulted in the death of Dr. John Garang DeMabior, six of his colleagues and seven other crew members." His body was flown to New Site, a southern Sudanese settlement near the scene of the crash, where former rebel fighters and civilian supporters have gathered to pay their respects to Garang. Garang's funeral is due to take place on August 13 in Juba .



Considered instrumental in ending the civil war, the effect of Garang's death upon the peace deal is uncertain. The government declared three days of national mourning, but large scale rioting in Khartoum killed at least 24 as youth from south Sudan attacked Arabs and clashed with security forces. After three days of violence, the death toll has risen to 84. Unrest was also reported in other parts of the country. Leading members of the SPLM, including Garang's successor Salva Kiir Mayardit, stated that the peace process would continue. Analysts suggested that the death could result in anything from a new democratic openness in the SPLA, which some have criticized for being overly dominated by Garang, to an outbreak of open warfare between the various southern factions that Garang had brought together.



The Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) is a rebel group that was formed in 1983. It has since fought against the governments of Gaafar Nimeiry, Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir. Its was led by John Garang, a Dinka, until his death on 30 July 2005. The SPLA is the military wing of the SPLM, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement.

The SPLA is largely southern-based, non-Arabic and non-Muslim, in contrast to the predominantly Muslim and Arab north. Its declared aims is to establish a secular and democratic Sudan. While the war in southern Sudan has been largely described in religious and ethnic terms, it is also a struggle for control of the oil resources located in the south.

In the early 1990s the SPLA divided into three factions: the SPLA Torit faction led by John Garang that has been the most active militarily; Carabino Kuany Bol's SPLA Bahr-al-Ghazal faction; and the South Sudan Independence Movement led by Riek Machar. These internal divisions have hampered negotiations with the government. The South Sudan Independence Movement/Army and several smaller factions signed a separate peace agreement with Khartoum in April 1997 and formed the United Democratic Salvation Front (UDSF).



The Sudanese government had accused Uganda of supporting the SPLA. The group are alledged to have operated on the Ugandan side of the Sudanese border with Uganda at the southern limit of Sudan.

The SPLA remains the major southern group negotiating for an end to the southern war, though the fighting in Darfur threatens the precarious peace. In 2005, a treaty between the SPLA/M and the Sudanese government led to the formal recognition of Southern Sudanese autonomy