What are they afraid of? And do these buffoons know they cannot control the
minds of everyone? They can choose to leave Garang alone, but not everyone, if
they are so dumb to know, they will eventually.
Okello Oryem should just keep quiet. What is the matter with him?
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Leave Garang alone, Uganda tells Sudan HUSSEIN BOGERE & ANGELO
IZAMA KAMPALA The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the death of the
late John Garang should be laid to rest and dismissed claims by a Sudanese
Minister that he was assassinated.
State Minister Henry Okello Oryem told Daily Monitor yesterday that
insinuations of foul play in the death of Garang should be placed in writing by
the Khartoum government.
We shall be happy to look at them. If there are any more allegations, they
should come out officially," Mr Oryem said.
At the same time, Dr Ruhakana Rugundu, the minister of Internal Affairs said
the government of Uganda stands by the join report into the crash. There was
an agreement on what caused this tragedy, pilot error not over-loading.
All representatives agreed on the findings as thoroughly investigated and
reported, Dr Rugunda, who was part of the committee on the side of Uganda,
said. The team was chaired by a US expert on investigations of such a nature.
We still stand by those conclusions of the experts.
Dr Rugunda and Mr Oryem were reacting to claims by the Sudanese State
Minister for Interior, Mr Aleu Ayeny Aleu, in a Sudanese newspaper in which he
claimed Garang was killed by people he thought were his friends.
The interview in the Sudanese Arab-language daily Akhbar Alyoum, an English
translation of which was published online at www.newsudanvision.com on August
14 has raised the profile of similar allegations of foul play.
Death
Garang died in July 2005 with 13 others when President Yoweri Museveni's
helicopter, which was carrying them crashed. Garang had been meeting Mr
Museveni at his country home in Rwakitura.
Mr Aleu alleges that Garang did not die in President Museveni's official
helicopter as claimed in the official investigation but that his aircraft had
been switched with a military helicopter which then crashed due to bad weather
and poor piloting.
He also claims Garang, who was the First Vice President of Sudan, had been
asked by his government to use the official presidential plane but had been
dissuaded by organisers of his meeting with Museveni.
However, Dr Rugunda disagreed. There is no doubt about the identification of
the presidential helicopter. That was the presidential helicopter which Mr
Museveni had used, he said.
Dr Rugunda said the helicopter flew from Rwakitura, where Garang had spent
the night, to Entebbe Air base for refuelling before taking off to New Site.
The meeting Aleu claims was attended by "three western ambassadors" he did not
name.
"He [Mr Aleu] had a chance to raise those claims," Mr Oryem said. The matter
seemed to have been settled when National Insurance paid out a claim of $1.75m
to the seven families of the Ugandans who perished together with Garang's
nine-man entourage.
The investigation team, Dr Rugunda said, had both Uganda and SPLA/M
representatives as well as experts from the US.
Questions have, however, been raised outside the report mainly by leading
figures in southern Sudan who want a separate criminal investigation. On
Thursday, the Uganda government spokesman Kirunda Kivejinja told Daily Monitor
that Mr Aleu should name the murderers if he knows them.
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