د.جون قرنق وخطابه الشهير "السودان الجديد " - Dr. John Garang New Sudan Speech

Quote: 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 on 9 January 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya. On 9 July 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." As a leader, John Garangs' democratic credentials were often questioned. For example, according to Gill Lusk "John Garang did not tolerate dissent and anyone who disagreed with him was either imprisoned or killed".[3]. Under his leadership, the SPLA was accused of human rights abuses.[3] The ideological profile of SPLA was as shadowy as Mr Garang himself. He varied from Marxism to drawing support from Christian fundamentalists in the US.[3] 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".[4]