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 آخر لقاء صحفى لقرنق فى يوغندا
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هذا آخر لقاء صحفى للدكتور قرنق باللغة الأنجليزية , أجراه معه الصحفى آنى موغيسا من جريدة "الرؤية الجديدة" اليوغندية.
وكان اللقاء الصحفى قبل صعود الدكتور قرنق الى الطائرة مسافرا من مطار عنتيبى الى مزرعة الرئيس اليوغندى موسيفنى فى رواكيتورا.
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Dr Garange Last Interview:
Anne Mugisa
First Lt.Gen. John Garang arrived at Entebbe Airport at 1:05, on Friday
and was met by Vice-President Gilbert Bukenya. Anne Mugisa
interviewed the jovial and towering Garang just before he boarded the
plane to Rwakitura
Mugisa: Congratulations on your promotion to Lt. Gen., Your Excellency
Garang: Thank you. How are you
Mugisa: I'm fine, Sir. How are you and how is the Sudan
Garang: Quite alright
Mugisa: I have just a few questions to ask you, General
Garang: Sure. Here take a seat
Mugisa: Your Excellency, what are your plans for rebuilding southern
Sudan
Garang: Oh! (laughs) We have put in place a plan to rebuild the southern
Sudan. You know that area is very big (widens his eyes and smiles). Bigger
than Uganda and Kenya together and there is no infrastructure to talk
about. For example, there is no tarmac road since (rolls his eyes) Adam.
We have over 12 million people there and they all need services.
Our first priority is to resettle the people and remove them from the
internally-displaced people's camps and also return home refugees living
outside Sudan. There are between three to four million Sudanese refugees
outside the country. We need to provide peace, security and stability and
disband all the militias. There are external and internal militias
including those who were formerly supported by the government. There are
many militias in the Sudan, including the LRA
So our priority is that and the infrastructure which includes roads,
opening up waterways, rehabilitation of the railway line to Wau in the
north, relinking the region with Uganda and Kenya.
We also need to rehabilitate the government infrastructure there. The
southern Sudan has 10 states. Ten supervisors have been appointed and in
the next seven days they will put in place a team to oversee the
government infrastructure rehabilitation there. Then we need to put in
place the financial infrastructure. There are only three banks there
Mugisa: When do you intend to start on the infrastructure building; what
period do you envisage to have a respectable amount of development in
place
Garang: We have started now, but you know that that place had been
destroyed. It will take time
Mugisa: What do you intend to do with Joseph Kony (the leader of LRA
rebels) hiding in southern Sudan, where he recently ambushed Sudanese
returning home and killed them
Garang: He won't be hiding there for long. It is not only Kony, but also
all the militias who have been operating in the area. We need to provide
peace, security and stability. So the militias, including those that were
formerly supported by the Government, must be disbanded.
Mugisa: What have you come to discuss with President Yoweri Museveni
Garang: We have not discussed yet
Mugisa: But you surely have an agenda for the meeting
(At this point, Ugandan foreign affairs officials ask us to end the
interview because Garang must proceed to Rwakitura where Museveni is
waiting).
Garang: (Laughs and says to me as he stands up) That is too early. I have
come to meet President Museveni not you
Mugisa: Thank you very much sir, and have a safe journey
Garang shakes my hand, still smiling and everybody moves out of the VIP
lounge on to the tarmac where he boards the presidential chopper to
Rwakitura
Two days later, my friend rings me and says, "Sorry, your
friend is dead. Garang is dead."
Published on: Tuesday, 2nd August, 2005
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Re: آخر لقاء صحفى لقرنق فى يوغندا (Re: Dr Mahdi Mohammed Kheir)
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Garang, pilots bodies found
PRAYERS: Garang’s wife Rebecca (far right) sits in front of his coffin during a funeral service attended by thousands at New Site yesterday
By Emmy Allio
THE charred bodies of the Ugandan crew killed on Saturday when the presidential helicopter crashed were yesterday flown to the southern Sudanese capital of Juba, sources said.
The Ugandan chopper was taking Sudanese 1st Vice-President Dr. John Garang back home after talks with President Yoweri Museveni at his country home in Rwakitura, Mbarara. All on board died when the plane crashed due to bad weather.
The crew’s next of kin and Uganda government officials fly to Juba today to try to identify the bodies.
“Once the bodies of the Ugandans have been identified, they will be flown to Uganda. The bodies were burnt so badly that they need careful identification,” the source said.
The dead Ugandans are: Col. Peter Nyakairu (pilot), Capt. Paul Kiyimba (co-pilot), Major Patrick Kiggundu (flight engineer), Lt. Johnson Munanura (jet officer), Corporal Hassan Kiiza (signaler), Lillian Kanaije (stewardess/hostess) and Samuel Bakowa (protocol officer).
The dead Sudanese are: Dr. John Garang, the man who had led the SPLA rebels for decades and had just signed a delicate peace deal with Khartoum in Nairobi earlier this year.
The other Sudanese who died were lieutenant colonels Mayin and Amat Malwa, lieutenants Aboki Abur, Juma Mayin and Majok Deng Knany.
Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir and Dr. Garang were due to form a new government by August 9.
Garang, 60, who did not drink or smoke, was married with six children.
A serene atmosphere hang over the airforce staff quarters in Entebbe, as mourners gathered in the homes of the dead officers to share their grief.
By morning, a few people were still at Col. Nyakairu’s residence where a large number of mourners had kept vigil all night.
Some 50 metres away, Kiggundu’s residence was crowded with relatives among them Col. Nathan Katagara. A bon-fire was still burning in the middle of the compound at midday.
Kiggundu’s brother John Rukanda said Kiggundu was one of the soldiers captured in Tanzania in 1979 while on a bombing raid. He was released in 1983. “We remember him for being very hardworking, generous and patriotic.”
Kiyimba’s home, across the road from Kiggundu’s, was crowded with mourners. The youthful widow, Sarah Kiyimba, said his three children would miss him. “He was a quiet but serious man,” said former airforce worker Godfrey Katende.
Museveni said a committee of three would investigate the accident.
Garang and his entourage left Museveni’s home on Saturday heading for his base, New Site, in southern Sudan aboard a presidential MI-172 helicopter which crashed in the Imatong mountains.
The valley in which the helicopter crashed on the Sudan side is situated near the Uganda-Kenya border and just kilometres from New Site (New Kush), where Garang lived for years before moving to Khartoum recently.
A search by military forces from Kenya, Uganda and Sudan recovered the bodies early on Monday and moved them to New Site. Both President Bashir and SPLM/A spokesman, Dr. Samson Kwaje, denied foul play. “The helicopter hit a rock and crushed, killing all 17 on board,” he said. The official figure of the dead stands at thirteen.
Meanwhile, the army has deployed at the crash scene, army spokesman Shaban Bantariza said yesterday. “The scene has to be guarded for the purpose of insurers and investigators,” he said.
A State House source said the bereaved families were provided with supplies. “We are happy with the assistance,” Maj. Kiggundu’s relatives said.
Published on: Wednesday, 3rd August, 2005
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/448314
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Dr Mahdi Mohammed Kheir
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تويتر
انستقرام
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