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| Title: | John Garang's Legacy to the Peace Process, the SPLM/A and the South |
| Author: | Young, John |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 106 |
| Period: | December |
| Pages: | 535-548 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Sudan |
| Subjects: | politicians peace negotiations Politics and Government History and Exploration nationalism Ethnic and Race Relations |
| About person: | John Garang de Mabior (1945-2005) |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240500467039 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=46D9966CA83E319DA105 |
| Abstract: | The death of John Garang, First Vice President of Sudan, President of Southern Sudan, and Chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in a helicopter crash on 30 July 2005, and the riots that followed, produced doubts about the viability of the 9 January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the prospects of peace processes underway elsewhere in the country. On the surface, this is not surprising, because Garang was a strong man in a movement that could only have survived under the leadership of a strong man. However, Garang's achievements came at a high cost to his party, to southern Sudanese, and to the peace process. He was a dictator who fought to maintain a hegemonic position in the SPLM/A. He created an artificial union based on a forced acceptance of his rule, but his authority was increasingly being challenged. Furthermore, although Garang proclaimed a 'new Sudan' which provided democracy and equity for all, the CPA was not a national agreement, nor was it a model that could be implemented elsewhere in the country, and even less was it a roadmap for democratic transformation. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
