Committee to invetigate Garang's death

Amid the critical security condition in Sudan, the UN Security Council urged the Sudanese people to be faithful to the memory of John Garang and to work for the restoring calm and to continue peace efforts.

Chairman of the UN peace keeping operations said that there is no evidence the contradict that the killing of John Garang resulted from an accident. Garang, the first deputy for the Sudanese President, was killed in a helicopter the belonged to the Ugandan presidency, which crashed when it was transporting him from Uganda to southern Sudan.

In this regard, the public relations secretary in the ruling National Congress Party, Kamal Obeid, said that finding out the circumstances of the death of Garang is needed and necessary.

Uganda, who owned the helicopter that belonged to President Yuris Mousevini and was carrying Garang when it crashed into a mountainous region, decided to form an investigation committee in the incident, composed of three experts. The representative of the UN secretary general Kofi Annan to Sudan, Yan Brunik, announced the possibility of the UN participation in this committee, in addition to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) which Garang led, and the Sudanese government.

Both the government and the SPLM hope that acts of violence would stop, acts which started to take the shape of revenge. Leaderships of the SPLM called on citizens to abide by the spirit of peace and to stop acts of violence.

The spokesman for the SPLM, Baqan Amoum, said that the leadership of the movement urged citizens via radio and the TV to restore calm and cling to peace, warning against a collapse in the country to the extent of converting it into another Rwanda.