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The Sudanese government also kept trying to negotiate peace with the SPLA, conceding more and more because of the desperate knowledge that military defense against the SPLA was tantamount to military defense against the USA. The SPLA and John Garang also had this knowledge. Garang hoped that with U.S. support the SPLA could achieve a military victory and conquer all of Sudan. Therefore the SPLA continued their bloody attacks and for years refused to seriously negotiate with the Sudanese government even though the Sudanese government made concessions such as offering to hold a binding referendum vote on secession in the south. Eventually however the desire for peace was so great and so nearly universal among Sudanese both north and south, and the willingness of the Sudanese government to make concessions extended so far, that Garang accepted a power-sharing offer to become vice president of Sudan, as well as being recognized as the administrative head of a semi-autonomous South Sudan for six years leading up to a referendum on secession, in exchange for peace. Having achieved peace, Garang had outlived his usefulness to the USA and Israel who had hired him to keep Sudan in a state of war and chaos. Three weeks after being sworn in as First Vice President of Sudan, in July 2005, John Garang died in a mysterious Wellstone-esque helicopter crash. Despite the peace deal the splitting of Sudan into two countries seems to be moving forward. In November 2005, the U.S. opened a U.S. Consulate in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Rebecca Garang, John Garang’s widow, met with George W. Bush in Washington D.C. in February 2006 to discuss diplomatic relations between the USA and Canada and South Sudan.
Just as it was becoming apparent that peace would break out in the south, in 2003 another civil war flared up in the Darfur region in western Sudan. Starting in February 2003, well-armed rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), supported by USA and Israel through the intermediary countries of Eritrea and Chad respectively, launched a series of attacks on police stations in Darfur killing many hundreds of police officers. With this police infrastructure gone, Darfur, a remote region (in an impoverished country) with many groups competing for farm and grazing land, turned into a violent lawless zone with many armed groups fighting each other, e.g., SLA, JEM, the Sudanese military, the Chadean military, local militias of all ethnicities and aligned with all sides of the conflict, and bandits. The situation deteriorated through 2004. Thousands of Darfurians were killed by violence by the various armed groups. Life was disrupted so agriculture, on which most people in Darfur subsisted, became difficult or impossible. Hundreds of thousands of people became refugees. Tens of thousands died from disease and famine.
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 Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:25 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:26 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:27 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:28 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:28 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:29 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:30 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:30 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:31 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:31 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:32 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:33 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:34 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:35 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:36 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:37 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 05-27-07, 05:46 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Mohamed Suleiman | 05-27-07, 08:55 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 06-08-07, 08:59 AM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Munir | 05-27-07, 10:31 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Frankly | 06-08-07, 03:13 PM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | القلب النابض | 06-09-07, 00:48 AM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Mohamed Suleiman | 06-09-07, 06:03 AM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Bashasha | 06-09-07, 06:06 AM |
 Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | saadeldin abdelrahman | 06-09-07, 06:21 AM |
| Re: Stop the War Against Sudan : By David Rolde | Hisham Amin | 06-09-07, 09:55 AM |
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