Silva Kiir satisfaction on investigation of Garang killing
Sudan-Uganda, Politics, 9/8/2005

The leader of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement, Vice President Silva Kiir, expressed his satisfaction over the process of investigation regarding the helicopter crash which was transporting his predecessor John Garang by the end of July, and resulted in his death.

According to the spokesman for the Ugandan Presidency, Kiir agreed with the President of Uganda Yuri Mousivini, during his visit to Kampala, on the need of launching a joint operation for arresting the chairman of the resistance al-Rab army leader, Joseph Kony, who is leading a rebellion against the Mousivini regime, and establishing bases for his forces in southern Sudan.

A committee composed of Sudanese, Ugandan, Kenyans, American and Russia experts is investigating the reasons that caused in the crash of Garang's plane.

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