Mon, Aug 08, 2005
They'll Help Investigate Death Of Vice President
Less than a month after a delegation
led by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was roughed up by
political bodyguards in Sudan, a team of NTSB investigators arrived
in Africa Monday to look into a helicopter mishap that claimed the
live of that country's vice president.
"The group is here, they arrived yesterday, but they
haven’t worked out a final schedule yet," an embassy official
in Nairobi, Kenya, told the French news agency AFP. "They will be
investigating the crash as the NTSB does and has done in other
incidents like this."
As ANN reported August 1st, the Ugandan
presidential Mi-172 helicopter was flying Vice President John
Garang (below) back to southern Sudan from Entebbe when it went
down in mountains and bad weather. Thirteen other people died in
the mishap.
At first, most authorities agreed the mishap was probably caused
by a combination of poor weather and high terrain. Even so, the
crash sparked two days of rioting that left dozens of Sudanese
dead.
Now, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni says the mishap could
have been caused by "an external factor" and suggested the cause
was unclear. That opened the door to US investigators -- and the
possibility that Garang and the other victims were murdered.
Garang, a Sudanese rebel leader in the southern part of the
country for more than two decades, was only recently made vice
president. His appointment was supposed to help end a civil war
that has raged on in that country since the 1980s. As NTSB
investigators sift through the wreckage, they'll also be sifting
through Sudan's political fortunes.
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