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 John Garang: a man whose personality is a majority
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The death of Garang , the ex-leader of the Sudan People Liberation Movement/ SPLM, was a very dramatic and filled with all the means of anguish and sorrow, and so is an event that may make Sudan's peace agreement difficult to end in peaceful solution, unless something unique is happening.
Such a notion may be harder to explain for both international observers and those Sudanese whose sole expectation of the end of the peace period is of course whether to save the known borders of the country or to achieve independence for the southern Sudan.
Garang's admired ability and exceptionality was, and is, representing in bringing about the recognition with the equality of the southern political subjects from all Sudanese elites and citizens, as well as from regional and international community. Leaving behind his name as a hero of all the Sudanese people that he was the only likable leader in Sudan's modern history, the ex-rebel leader firmly dedicated himself to what he believes in, and that he didn't split over the nissisity of attaining the goal: liberating the nation of the old Sudan that didn't keep an eye on the issues of comprehensive equality and justice among all Sudanese ethnic groups.
In fact, the western media, think tank fields, political organizations, and religious sections and the like factually do not realize how Garang was playing a key role in leading his simultaneously southern and northern natives to a new era -- in which they discovered their real existence situation.
In spite of my well understanding of how such western civic apparatuses think of the Garang movement in terms of civilizational district ions. but such apparatuses try not to dive further into the deep impacts of SPLM on entirely changing Sudanese present and future thinking climate, particularly that no any leader had a clear road map of solving the historic problematic of Sudan. In fact, Sudan did not witnessed an honestly skilled leader as Garang to prepare and lead it toward stability and progress in ways that perpetuate strong unite.
One of Garang's great habit the Sudanese people would not forget is his simple language that analyze their complicated crises. That language expressing a future filled with academic, cultural, economic, educational benefits was easier to understand , this without mentioning that Grange had a joyful soul is able to let even his former enemies laughing.
To that, the writer could say that all the state-man skills shown on his attitude were exact reasons of his thrilling experience in life.
If an autobiography has been written of him, Garang would have been profiled on which as the man who much functions the contradicted legacy he was diving in it. He attracted so many northern intellectuals believing in that national goals. And then he paved a way for them to participate through the movement's military and political fields, but Garang was the same commander in chief who fought those southern intellectuals and soldiers who believed that he shouldn't have been the only person hijacking the south issue.
Garang, on the other hand, combined militarily with academia, agricultural specializations with political hypotheses. He innovatively called upon all Sudanese to build a genuine unity in novel bases, and in the mean time the ex- rebel leader clashed with his own comrades who established the movement.
So, too, Garang, combined military discipline with the easiness in dealing with civilian matters, a kind of old African religion with Christianity and serving the Sudanese army- as a colonel, with fighting it later. He began fighting with logistic help from the Soviet Union but finished with the United States as a heavy- weight friend.
Moreover, he was promoting a good relationship with some Arab leaders while maintaining geopolitical aids from African ones. And lastly he mixed his own tribe wisdom with universal culture values.
Concerning, on the other hand, the catastrophic crisis of Darfour, as well as the western Sudan, Garang was considered as a likely mediator behind the scene to facilitate an agreement with the rebels' regional demands, which resemble the south ones that were reconciled.
From what is known is that Garang logistically helped those rebellions prosper as other fronts boosting the power of his movement while weakening the central government. A position such as this made Garang a man that could be trusted as to the potential of giving such northern rebellions a great deal of settling their anger military struggles against Sudan's old authorities. Now, with no Garang's influence over the government negotiations with the western and eastern rebelled movements, accomplishing peace accords with them would be as a sort of hardness as the affection of Garang's death on such rebellions and the whole Sudanese .
Yes, no doubt the southern Movement can participate, in an effective manner, in the success of the coming negotiations with both fronts. This since a comprehensive peace in the country helps the Nivasha protocols that only included southern Sudan , but no body knows whether or not Cilva kiir - the new leader of the southern Sudan government- is eager to honestly achieve political commitments Garang made to both rebellions, of them are (1) creating and maintaining a united Sudan in which all Sudanese "geographic directions" share power , and not only one direction representing in the north. And this means that neither Darfour nor the eastern Sudan are to be exploited by a central authority that composes of those northern folk controlling the country- as it is the situation since the independence.
To the author, had D.John Garang, who held PHD in agrictural economy form U.S., afforded, through the peace process, to make that articulation of the new Sudan vision available, all Sudanese would have find it easier to forget the psychological and physical aftermath of the war and to make unity possible. The reasons to this here are that Garang, since his resume accumulation is various, rich and effective in solving problematic issues- as his movement experiment has shown us , was being an agreed upon leader through the new political scene shaping in Sudan right now. From aside, the National Islamic Front/NIF which dominated the government that assigned the peace protocols with SPLM was having every reasons to see Garang alive to maintain the accord process, particularly that the government strongly viewed him as he is nothing but a unity man who could have play a positive role in convincing his clan to save Sudanese from dividing into two nations.
To that, the National Democratic Alliance which has politically and militarily alienated itself with Garang in oppositional roles against the government since 1990 also shared the same view with NIF. In addition, this opposing alliance was heavily depending on the ex-rebel leader to sustain its dream of defeating the government through the coming election.
Other political parties and civil organizations, as well as some national figures put a good faith on Garang that he is the only trusted leader, as I mentioned, in terms of that no one other than him is able not to keep silence of couples of governmental and traditional exercises, which have been undermining Sudanese and causing them to survive such a dilemma- I think such bad exercises still exist.
On the other hand, some Sudanese tribal groups possibly might looked at Garang as the one who would have grant them, from his presidential position, a full respect in national representation upon governmental branches, specially that those tribal groups have been marginalized in the all the past governments.
Eventually, It is true that there is still a societal gap between the old Sudan and the new one that the National Islamic Front is wanting not to bridging it. This despite the reality that the past central authorities practices of power that brought failures and wars are inevitable reasons for a permanent decline in Sudan's very wanted stability.
But Garang's movement, any way, have paved the peaceful path for a genuine, fundamental change in societal status quo. and this change, however, would judge Sudanese thinking and concern for future, no matter how the Islamists ignore, or say insist on blocking the Sudanese dreams.
(عدل بواسطة صلاح شعيب on 09-16-2005, 06:18 PM)
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