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| The Khartoum government is denying that it rigged an airplane to crash leaving Rumbek, causing the deaths of numerous SPLA and other South Sudanese government officials.   War Hero DENG AJAK was killed in tragic plane crash. A plane chartered from South Sudan's Al-Tawasul Airline crashed at a spot near Rumbek, resulting in the death of SPLA military hero and anti-genoicde/anti-slavery activist, Deng Ajak, SPLA Affairs Minister, Dominic Dim Deng and his family, GoSS Presidential Advisor, Dr. Justin Yac Arop, his wife and two of his children, in addition to 18 SPLA officers and two of the plane's crew.
GoSS Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar told members of the press that the plane was yesterday coming from Wau with 24 passengers on board and landed at a county in the Lakes State for the delegation to attend a base convention that was held in that area. After the conference, the plane took off heading for Juba when its two engines failed mid-flight and the plane crashed near Rumbek, Dr. Machar recounted.
Less than an hour after the crash, Machar dismissed any sabotage or plot attempts as a result of the fierce competition in the base conferences, adding that a team has been formed to investigate the crash.
For his part, GoSS Minister for Presidential Affairs, Dr. Luka Biong, said the Government of the South will go into a three-day state of mourning considering that the delegation was on a national mission, reiterating that an investigation will be conducted on the incident. Many in South Sudan and the Darfur region, however, are insisting that this crash was a deliberate "mass assassination" by the North Arab Khartoum government and that the similarity to John Garang's plane crash are not mere coincidence. Sources in JUBA say that Deng Ajak expressed that he did not want to get on the airplane and had
Informed sources further told the media that among the plane's victims were Dominic's two wives and some top-ranking SPLA officers, including John Malut and Kuon Duk, intimating that the plane, which is new, was not in good condition and has not been insured. For many, this tragedy has shades of John Garang.
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