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Museveni Remarks Upset Sudan
New Vision (Kampala)
August 7, 2005
Posted to the web August 7, 2005
Steven Candia and Agencies
THE Sudan government is upset with President Yoweri Museveni's Friday remarks on the death of John Garang. It has urged Uganda to stop making "baseless statements" over the death of Garang, the Sudanese Vice-President, when investigations into the cause of the crash are still on going.
Museveni told thousands of mourners in the southern Sudanese town of Yei on Friday that the helicopter crash that killed Garang and 13 others may not have been an accident, contrary to official explanations.
Shortly after Museveni's remarks, Sudanese Information Minister Abdulbaset Sebdarat said the Khartoum government was "very upset" by Museveni's remarks.
Garang was killed in a July 31 helicopter crash, less than a month after becoming Sudan's new First Vice-President under a landmark January peace deal that ended a 22-year north-south civil war.
The Sudanese minister said that Khartoum was bothered by Museveni's statements because the Ugandan authorities had alerted Khartoum that the helicopter went missing "more than 12 hours later."
"He knows that the plane was Ugandan, its staff was also Ugandan and it departed from his country," the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) quoted the minister as saying.
"The Ugandan President also knows that the government had formed a fact-finding committee to investigate the crash incident with the participation of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)," he said.
The committee was due to kick off investigations on Saturday after Garang's burial, he added. "We urge the Ugandan government to give us any available information immediately," Sebdarat said.
Earlier in the day, the Sudanese Acting Foreign Minister Mustafa, Othman Ismail, said neither the Sudanese government nor SPLM were accusing anyone of involvement in any foul play that led to the crash.
"Some people say accident, it may be an accident, it may be something else," Museveni said, suggesting for the first time that the crash of his presidential helicopter, in which Garang was riding, may have been the result of foul play.
"I am looking at all options," he told a crowd of thousands of mourning southern Sudanese in Yei where Garang's body was brought as part of a funeral procession before his burial in Juba.
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