Garang Presumed Dead in Sudan

[Jake]

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Ugandan and Sudanese forces searched on Monday for a missing helicopter carrying Sudan's vice president, a former rebel leader who is a key figure in a fledgling peace deal between the predominantly Arab Muslim government and the Christian south.

John Garang's helicopter crashed in bad weather in Uganda near the Sudan border, Uganda's president said.

Garang's absence would be a heavy blow to the January peace deal that ended a 21-year civil war between the mostly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south in which some 2 million people died

Certainly not the best news possible

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Riots in the capital apparently... not a good idea to look even slightly Arab there at the moment

[WMS]

Not good. Not good at all, since Garang was the only person who could bring the entire Southern Sudan to the peace table.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Looks like the Sudanese regime decided they couldn't deal with that peace deal after all. Now if the insurgency starts up again if Bush was any half decent of a president he'd rain cruise missles on every Sudanese military base.

[WMS]

Looks like the Sudanese regime decided they couldn't deal with that peace deal after all. Now if the insurgency starts up again if Bush was any half decent of a president he'd rain cruise missles on every Sudanese military base.

There are already active insurgencies in both the east and west of Sudan. If the south re-erupts, that's enough to do something with if, you know, the rebels can get some decent support for once.

For fun, use chemical weapons on the Janjaweed, to 'defoliate' them.