Garang death sparks riots in Sudan, 24 killed

[WhiteTara]

oh Goddess, it has begun.
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Garang, a key figure in a January peace deal hailed as a rare African success story, became the first vice president on July 9. He died at the weekend after the Ugandan presidential helicopter he was traveling in went down in bad weather.

His former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), moving quickly to fill the vacuum, named Garang's deputy Salva Kiir as his successor on Monday evening and said it expected him to be sworn in as Sudan's first vice president in two weeks.
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"They (southerners) are beating anybody they see who looks like they are Arab," Swayd Abdullah, a student, told Reuters.

"People have been running all over the streets. The policemen are taking people from the streets. There is fire and smoke," a Reuters TV witness said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050801/wl_nm/sudan_dc

[hallc]

this is very, very bad...

very very very bad. I was worried about this.

[WhiteTara]

3. Hey Hallc, welcome to DU

:hi:

[hallc]

1. dupe

[Fenris]

2. Yikes.

:scared: