RESCHEDULED!!! – The Fundamental Violation of Human Rights in the Sudan
John Garang de Mabior
Saturday, 23 Mar 2002 at 12:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union * 3 p.m. Reception, Cardinal Room
John Garang de Mabior is the founding member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement(SPLM) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). He has been the Chairman of the SPLM and Commander-in - Chief of SPLA since their inception 1983. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the Sudanese Opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He was born in Southern Sudan in June 1945.He moved to USA and earned a Bachelor of Science in 1971 from Grinnel College, and a doctorate from Iowa State University in 1981.In the same year he wasawarded the Gamma Sigma Honor Award for significant contributions to agricultural science. He has completed considerable research in the area of economic development in Southern Sudan. He previously served as Deputy Director of Military Research Branch in the Sudan Army General headquarters in Khartoum. The Sudanese civil war between the mainly Christian and animist south and the Muslim north has claimed more than two million lives since it began in 1983.
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