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[Jean-Francois Darcq]

BIOGRAPHY OF LATE GORDON MAYEN MUORTAT (1922-2008)

On behalf of SPLM UK and Ireland Chapter and the family, relatives and
friends of Late Gordon Mayen Muortat, the Southern Sudanese Community in
the UK and Ireland are profoundly distraught by the untimely death of
their father, uncle and elder statesman who has been a source of comfort
and an exemplary leader who possess not only wisdom and knowledge, but
provided strategic direction, inspiration and encouragement to the many
Southern Sudanese Community at any of their functions social/political
gatherings in the UK.

Late Gordon Muortat is first and foremost known by Southern Sudanese
Community as an Anyanya hero who has inspired many and greatly
contributed to the liberation struggle of the people of Southern Sudan
and for dedicating all his entire life for their cause. His well
attended speeches at many Southern Sudanese occasions in London and
other parts of the UK will live in their minds and hearts for years on
end. He will sorely be missed by the Southern Sudanese Community in the
UK whom he loves so much and who love him to bits.

I would therefore be very grateful if you could publish this information
on your well established websites for all to see and share his fantastic
achievements that we are all proud of and reaping today.

Thank you ever so much for your help and cooperation for sharing this
valuable information with your readership worldwide.

Yours Sincerely

Lukano James Omunson
Secretary for Information
SPLM UK and Ireland Chapter
London, UK

BIOGRAPHY- GORDON MUORTAT-MAYEN (1922-2008)

Muortat Mayen Maborjok
Aciecegi Pac 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 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. He rose
to Chief Inspector of Police.

In 1957 Gordon Muortat was transferred to the Sudan Civil Administration
at the rank of Assistant District Commissioner (ADC).
In 1964 following the demise of General Ibrahim Abboud military regime,
G. Muortat resigned from the Civil Administration and became one of the
founders of Southern Front (SF).
In 1965 he was appointed leader of the Southern Front delegation at the
Round Table Conference between the North and South of Sudan. In the same
year he was appointed as one of the three cabinet ministers representing
Southern Front in the transitional government of Sirr El Khatim El
Khalifia. He held the Portfolio of the Minster of Works & Mineral
Resources.

In June 1965 he became the Vice President of the Southern Front, when it
was re-organised into a Political Party.
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.
In February 1967 he left the country and joined the Anyanya national
liberation movement. He was appointed a Foreign Minister in the Southern
Sudan Provisional Government (SSPG).
In 1969 Gordon Muortat was elected unanimously at a convention as a the
President of the Nile Provisional Government (NPG).
In 1971 he was elected President of African National Front. This
organisation was superseded by Addis Ababa Agreement.
Gordon Muortat became the leader of the Kinshasa Group that denounced
the Addis Ababa Agreement as a sell out and fraudulent.
He continued the protest against the agreement and remained in exile
moving to the UK.
In 1975 he was elected President of the Anyanya Patriotic Front a
liberation movement with the same aims as SSPG, NPG and the first
Anyanya. He denounced a splinter group that became known as Anyanya II
because they deviated from the original ideals of the APF.

In 1994 Gordon Muortat was appointed as Advisor to the SPLM/SPLA
Chairman Dr. John Garang de Mabior and a member of the National
Liberation Council.

In 2006 onwards he became an MP in the South Sudan Legislative Council
representing his constituency in Rumbek.

Muortat died while on a recess from parliament-having achieved so much
in his life. He was very proud of the SPLA/M achievements especially now
the road to the realisation of our freedom is within sight. He is
survived by his wife Sarah Piath Ahoc, 10 children: Acol, Madong,
Nyanijur, Laliwengde, Mawan, Mayen, Pac, Nyitur, Acieg and Nyier, and 24
grandchildren and 1 great grand daughter.
He will be greatly missed.

May God bless his Soul in eternity