The other side of John Garang

In answer to your editorial on John Garang, I beg to differ: This account is pretty one sided, and romanticised. Garang was also a warhorse, and a warlord, who would probably not have made the transition, over time, to a post-war Sudan. It wasnt really in his interests, or within his capabilities, to do so. What experience did he have of being a peacetime political leader? Did he know any other kind of reality, other than a wartime one? Why did he not allow any other southerner to take power within the SPLA/M? Everyone knows he ruthlessly dealt with those who challenged his leadership, hence the vacuum faced now within the movement. That is not the democratic way. How many deaths - including those of southern Sudanese - can be placed at his door?