Sudan Radio Service: Other Victims of Garang Helicopter Crash

05 August 2005 - (Nairobi) - S-P-L-M ATHORITIES HAVE ANNOUNCED THE NAMES OF 5 S-P-L-A OFFICERS WHO WERE KILLED WITH DOCTOR JOHN GARANG IN LAST SATURDAY’S HELICOPTER CRASH.

THE LIST WAS RELEASED TO JOURNALISTS AT NEW SITE BY THE NEW S-P-L-M LEADER, LEUTENANT GENERAL SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT. SUDAN RADIO SERVICE PRODUCER REBECCA OKWACHI HAS THE STORY:

[REBECCA OKWACI:] “THE S-P-L-A AUTHORITIES HAVE RELEASED THE LIST OF 5 NAMES OF THE BODYGUARDS WHO WERE ABOARD THE HELICOPTER THAT CRASHED AND THOSE WHO PERISHED WITH FIRST VICE PRESIDENT DOCTOR JOHN GARANG. LIEUTENANT GENERAL SALVA KIIR CONFIRMED THE LIST OF THE NAMES AS LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALI MAYEN MAJOK, LIEUTENANT COLONEL AMAT MALWAL, 1ST LIEUTENANT DENG MAJOK KUANY, 1ST LIEUTENANT MAYEN DENG MABIOR AND OBOKI OBUR AMAYBEK.”

S-P-L-M AUTHORITIES ALSO CONFIRMED THAT 7 UGANDAN MILITARY OFFICERS DIED IN THE HELICOPTER CRASH. APART FROM GARANG AND THE 5 BODYGUARDS, NO OTHER SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE S-P-L-M WERE ON BOARD THE HELICOPTER.