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Garang 'was assassinated'
18/06/2007 08:51 - (SA)
Nairobi - The widow of former Sudanese vice-president and southern rebel leader John Garang claimed her husband who died in a 2005 helicopter crash had been assassinated, Kenyan television reported on Sunday.
Rebecca Nyadeng' however fell short of laying the blame on anyone.
"Let me tell you what I have always hidden in my mind and my heart. When my husband died, I did not say he was killed because I knew the consequences, but I knew my husband was assassinated," Nyadeng' said in a television report by independent Kenya Television Network (KTN).
Nyadeng', also the roads and transport minister for the semi-autonomous region of southern Sudan, said she refrained from releasing the information after Garang died in order to maintain the unity of the southern Sudanese.
"I knew we had millions of people of southern Sudan and we also had children and I knew they were going to be affected. My husband was a great man, but he had left a vision greater than him," she said.
Nearly a week after ex-rebel leader died, his ally Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said the crash that killed Garang may not have been an accident, and "it may be something else."
But in April 2006, a joint Sudanese-Ugandan probe - conducted with assistance from US, Russian and Kenyan aviation experts - ruled out foul play in the crash of the Ugandan chopper that was followed by rioting in several Sudanese cities.
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