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Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور (Re: Murtada Gafar)
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Thank you Murtada
:Here is the AP coverage
Rebel leader returns to Khartoum after two-decade absence
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- John Garang, the rebel leader in a two-decade civil war for southern autonomy, returned to Sudan's capital for the first time in 22 years on Friday to take up his new position as first vice president in the government he once fought.
Garang stepped off a jet at Khartoum's international airport and was greeted by about 100 government ministers, political party members and other dignitaries who lined a red carpet and shook the influential former rebel chief's hand.
Wearing a brown suit and broad smile, Garang was later whisked away in a heavily guarded convoy toward the city center, where he is expected to be welcomed by President Omar el-Bashir at the headquarters of the ruling National Congress Party.
The longtime foes will later go to Khartoum's central Green Square, where hundreds of thousands of people are expected to turn out for a massive public reception.
Loudspeakers on a truck blared slogans of welcome, saying "Our heroic leader is coming to Khartoum today." Sudan state television estimated four million people could turn out to welcome Garang -- some 3.5 million southerners alone live in the capital.
"Garang is a hero who succeeded in leading his people to victory," said William Ezekiel, managing editor of the Khartoum Monitor, an English language newspaper currently suspended by the government. "His coming means a new page in Sudan ... a new era in Sudanese politics whereby a non-Muslim can take up such a position."
No Christian or a southerner has ever held such a high position in Sudan's largely Islamic government.
The stage was set for Garang's arrival and vice presidency by the January signing of a comprehensive peace agreement that called for a coalition government, wealth and power sharing and democratic elections within three years. Earlier this week, the National Assembly and Garang's Sudan Legislative Council approved an interim constitution that said Islamic law will not be applied in the mainly Christian and animist south.
Garang, 60, will be sworn in as first vice president on Saturday, after which he and el-Bashir will sign the constitution.
Garang's visit to the capital -- he has not been here since the civil war began in 1983 -- has been the lead story in newspapers and television broadcasts this week and the subject of chatter around the city.
"Frankly, we as southerners never expected to see Garang in Khartoum," said Albino Maamon, 42, a broker in downtown Khartoum. "There were so many scenarios. Some people expected the south to secede but he is now coming to Khartoum. That is something to reckon with."
Albino, a southerner from the Upper Nile region, said he expects many changes from Garang and the national unity government.
A northern Sudanese lecturer who preferred not to be named said he was surprised that Garang was coming to Khartoum.
"There was such a huge amount of enmity and bad feelings, you would expect Garang to be killed. But to come to Khartoum, that we never expected," he told The Associated Press.
The new constitution is the first Sudanese charter to lay out freedoms of religion and expression as human rights, articles hailed mainly by southerners who have felt discriminated against by the Islamic and Arab government.
A key element of the peace deal was that the south will have a referendum on secession after six years. Many southerners seem to see Garang's vice presidency as a time for him to fix the woes of the south -- including improving infrastructure, allotting a fair share of resources and easing the return of war refugees -- before it leaves Sudan.
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السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 08:54 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 08:57 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 09:00 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | محمد صلاح | 07-08-05, 08:57 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 09:03 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 09:07 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Murtada Gafar | 07-08-05, 09:17 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 09:35 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Tragie Mustafa | 07-08-05, 09:43 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 10:03 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Murtada Gafar | 07-08-05, 10:10 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 10:21 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 11:14 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Murtada Gafar | 07-08-05, 11:19 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 02:30 PM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-08-05, 02:37 PM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-09-05, 01:30 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-09-05, 02:57 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-11-05, 00:43 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-11-05, 00:43 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-11-05, 00:44 AM |
Re: السودان: وصول د. جون قرنق زعيم الحركة الشعبية للبلاد: توجد صور | Kostawi | 07-11-05, 00:47 AM |
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