Ten years before the start of South Sudan's current war, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a meeting at Rumbek in which the party leadership sought to resolve a major problem between their chairman and deputy chairman.
Minutes of that crucial meeting reveal that the SPLM Chairman John Garang, in the final year of his life, distrusted his deputy Salva Kiir, preferred to downplay their differences rather than confront him outright, and sought to avoid setting up formal processes in which he would have to manage affairs through Kiir.
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