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'''Gordon Muortat Mayen Maborjok (1922-2008)''' was a South Sudanese politician who was the President of the Nile Provisional Government (NPG) in Anya-nya I; the first armed resistance to Khartoum which started in 1955. Muortat also served as Vice-President of the Southern Front (SF) and Foreign Minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG). |
'''Gordon Muortat Mayen Maborjok (1922-2008)''' was a South Sudanese politician who was the President of the Nile Provisional Government (NPG) in Anya-nya I; the first armed resistance to Khartoum which started in 1955. Muortat also served as Vice-President of the Southern Front (SF) and Foreign Minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG)<ref>{{cite book|last=Robert S. Kramer, Richard A. Lobban Jr., Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban|title=Historical Dictionary of the Sudan|year=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press}}</ref>. |
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== Early Life == |
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Gordon Muortat Mayen was born in 1922 at Karagok village 10 miles South East of Rumbek. His father was a local chief of Patiop Clan of the Agar Dinka. Muortat was educated at Akot elementary from 1936-1942. He then attended Loka Nugent Junior Secondary School in Western Equatoria from 1942-1945. In 1951 he was among the first Southernern Sudanese to graduate from Sudan Police College and was commissioned to police inspector where he rose through the ranks to become Chief Inspector of Police<ref>{{cite book|last=Lokosang|first=L. B.|title=South Sudan: The Case for Independence and Learning from Mistakes|year=2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation}}</ref>. |
Gordon Muortat Mayen was born in 1922 at Karagok village 10 miles South East of Rumbek. His father was a local chief of Patiop Clan of the Agar Dinka. Muortat was educated at Akot elementary from 1936-1942. He then attended Loka Nugent Junior Secondary School in Western Equatoria from 1942-1945. In 1951 he was among the first Southernern Sudanese to graduate from Sudan Police College and was commissioned to police inspector where he rose through the ranks to become Chief Inspector of Police<ref>{{cite book|last=Lokosang|first=L. B.|title=South Sudan: The Case for Independence and Learning from Mistakes|year=2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation}}</ref>. |
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== Political Career == |
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In 1957, Muortat was denied a transfer to the Southern Sudan, so he resigned his position and joined the Sudan Civil Administration. He was appointed assistant district commissioner and served in many places in the Bahr al-Ghazal and Upper Nile provincies. After the military government of Prime Minister Sirr al-Khatim appointed Muortat to be minister of works and mineral resources in his cabinet from April to July 1965. However, when Prime Minister Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub came to office, Muortat was dismissed<ref>{{cite book|last=Robert S. Kramer, Richard A. Lobban Jr., Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban|title=Historical Dictionary of the Sudan|year=2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press}}</ref>. |
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In 1964, Gordon Muortat became one of the founders of the Southern Front (SF), and headed the Southern Front delegation in the Round Table Conference between the South and north in 1965, Muortat is remembered for demanding that the south be given the right to self determination<ref>{{cite book|last=Anders Breidlid, Avelino Androga Said, Astrid Kristine Breidlid|title=A Concise History of South Sudan|year=2010}}</ref> . The great massacres of Juba, Wau and all over the South that were carried out by the Sudanese army in July 1965 frustrated and convinced Gordon Muortat that the Northern Arab rulers were not interested in the peaceful resolution of the South Sudan Question. Thus in August 1965 at the meeting of the Southern Front executive committee, he proposed that the party should be dissolved and that the entire committee should move into exile with the objective of merging with the Anyanya political and military wings<ref>{{cite book|last=Lokosang|first=L. B.|title=South Sudan: The Case for Independence and Learning from Mistakes|year=2010|publisher=Xlibris Corporation}}</ref>. Muortat joined the Anya-Anya-1 insurgency in 1967 and was appointed foreign minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG) under Aggrey Jayden. After the collapse of the SSPG due to internal political wrangling, <ref>{{cite web|last=Wel|first=PaanLuel|url=http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/news/articles/the-martyrs-day-who-are-the-south-sudaneses-national-heroes-and-heroines}}</ref> the second Anya-Nya One government, the Nile Provisional Government (NPG), was formed with Gordon Muortat Mayen being elected unanimously as president, advocating for the complete independence of the south<ref>{{cite web|last=Mayom|first=Manyang|url=http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article32043}}</ref> . The NPG was dissolved in 1970, after the failure to restore Israeli arms shipments to the forces. The weapons were now being diverted to Joseph Lagu who formed the South Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) in January 1971<ref>{{cite book|last=O. Collins|first=Robert|title=A History of Modern Sudan|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:45, 27 October 2013
Template:Unreviewed Gordon Muortat Mayen Maborjok (1922-2008) was a South Sudanese politician who was the President of the Nile Provisional Government (NPG) in Anya-nya I; the first armed resistance to Khartoum which started in 1955. Muortat also served as Vice-President of the Southern Front (SF) and Foreign Minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG)[1].
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Early Life
Gordon Muortat Mayen was born in 1922 at Karagok village 10 miles South East of Rumbek. His father was a local chief of Patiop Clan of the Agar Dinka. Muortat was educated at Akot elementary from 1936-1942. He then attended Loka Nugent Junior Secondary School in Western Equatoria from 1942-1945. In 1951 he was among the first Southernern Sudanese to graduate from Sudan Police College and was commissioned to police inspector where he rose through the ranks to become Chief Inspector of Police[2].
Political Career
In 1957, Muortat was denied a transfer to the Southern Sudan, so he resigned his position and joined the Sudan Civil Administration. He was appointed assistant district commissioner and served in many places in the Bahr al-Ghazal and Upper Nile provincies. After the military government of Prime Minister Sirr al-Khatim appointed Muortat to be minister of works and mineral resources in his cabinet from April to July 1965. However, when Prime Minister Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub came to office, Muortat was dismissed[3].
In 1964, Gordon Muortat became one of the founders of the Southern Front (SF), and headed the Southern Front delegation in the Round Table Conference between the South and north in 1965, Muortat is remembered for demanding that the south be given the right to self determination[4] . The great massacres of Juba, Wau and all over the South that were carried out by the Sudanese army in July 1965 frustrated and convinced Gordon Muortat that the Northern Arab rulers were not interested in the peaceful resolution of the South Sudan Question. Thus in August 1965 at the meeting of the Southern Front executive committee, he proposed that the party should be dissolved and that the entire committee should move into exile with the objective of merging with the Anyanya political and military wings[5]. Muortat joined the Anya-Anya-1 insurgency in 1967 and was appointed foreign minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG) under Aggrey Jayden. After the collapse of the SSPG due to internal political wrangling, [6] the second Anya-Nya One government, the Nile Provisional Government (NPG), was formed with Gordon Muortat Mayen being elected unanimously as president, advocating for the complete independence of the south[7] . The NPG was dissolved in 1970, after the failure to restore Israeli arms shipments to the forces. The weapons were now being diverted to Joseph Lagu who formed the South Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM) in January 1971[8]
References
- ^ Robert S. Kramer, Richard A. Lobban Jr., Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Lokosang, L. B. (2010). South Sudan: The Case for Independence and Learning from Mistakes. Xlibris Corporation.
- ^ Robert S. Kramer, Richard A. Lobban Jr., Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Sudan. Scarecrow Press.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Anders Breidlid, Avelino Androga Said, Astrid Kristine Breidlid (2010). A Concise History of South Sudan.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Lokosang, L. B. (2010). South Sudan: The Case for Independence and Learning from Mistakes. Xlibris Corporation.
- ^ Wel, PaanLuel. http://www.southsudannewsagency.com/news/articles/the-martyrs-day-who-are-the-south-sudaneses-national-heroes-and-heroines.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Mayom, Manyang. http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article32043.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ O. Collins, Robert (2008). A History of Modern Sudan. Cambridge University Press.