The weapons were then passed on by Muortat to the SPLA, who later took up arms against Khartoum.
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Dr. John Garang de Mabior, future leader of the SPLA, was among one of the batches of Muortat's soldiers sent to Israel for military training under the NPG.
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In 1983 President Gaafar Nimeiry declared all Sudan an Islamic state under Shari'a law, including the non-Islamic majority southern region, forcing southerners once again to take to the bush for the second struggle for the liberation of the Sudan, this time under Late Dr. John Garang.
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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.
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He then attended Loka Nugent Junior Secondary School in Western Equatoria from 1942-1945.
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